James O'Malley

It’s a bit of a cliché to moan about the railways - the arguments and moans are always the same: “Cuh! The train is always late!”, “The trains are so expensive”, “The staff of East Midlands Trains are like the Stasi”. Clichéd thoug...

I’m terribly excited as the pilot episode of my new podcast has just gone live. The Pod Delusion is a bit like From Our Own Correspondent, but with a sceptical/liberal/lefty/Guardianista slant. ...

Ridiculously, my work thought it a good idea that they lend me a video camera to make tutorial videos and the like for them...

I’m posting this now on the off-chance that I’m right. Then I’ll be able to boast about being brilliant at figuring things out. If you’ve got no idea what I’m talking about, earlier on Derren Brown “predicted” the lottery result live on TV - and got all six numbers. Obviously, ...

Poor journalists. It must be a pain in the arse when a story breaks at around midnight, so you have to cut them some slack for, perhaps, not living entirely up to proper Woodward & Bernstein-esque journalistic practice at such an hour. Especially on a showbiz story… Similar Posts:Happy New Year! ...

It’s Saturday night, I’m watching TV and on screen I can see a singing and dancing extravaganza that it making me feel a little bit sick. No, I’m not watching the X-Factor, as I’m far too elitist for it. And be...

If you’re British, you’ve probably spent the last few weeks staring at the TV in something of a bewilderment as President Obama tries to push universal healthcare reforms through Congress. Be...

Don’t worry, I’m just testing to see how easy it is to embed phlogs… There might be more in the future! Just testing! Similar Posts:Animal Testing Futu...

A subtle shift has been going on in the war with Afghanistan, apparently. The politicians in America and Britain are talking less about the need to turn the country into a vibrant multi-party democracy, like they’ve been trying to do with Iraq, and have been talking about “stability” instead. Obvi...

The King of Pop is dead, with no immediately obvious heir to the throne. I imagine in the next few days we’ll see the different pretenders to the crown emerge, each sounding things out and making their case - this, however, terrifies me. ...

I went down to Westminster today to see what was going on, and to check if Gordon Brown was still the Prime Minister or not. I bumped into Shadow Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox whilst down there - so seizing the moment I thought I better ask him something...

If you’re anything like me, chances are you’ve been full of righteous anger over the last week because of the whole MP’s expenses thing. Ever...

One of the most boring responses to a criticism is probably the phrase “don’t knock it until you’ve tried it”. It sou...

At risk of sounding like I’ve either got a vendetta against morris dancers, or am a big fan of them, due to how frequently I seem to write about them, I saw some more Morris Dancing today. ...