Listening to Evelyn’s Waugh’s Handful of Dust today while driving Mum to Mevagissey to sell some books. Simon Callow read it superbly and I laughed out loud at several points. “Love,” he wrote, “is the only thing stronger than sorrow”.

Apologies for misquotation, Señor Waugh…

Tender and tense and enticing. Plot didn’t need those two ‘discoveries’ to create even more tension. Seemed a story of inevitability and fear that could have involved any couple, regardless of sexuality. But superficially: refreshing to see to see two beautiful men so close on screen…

4/5

I don’t know when the Beeb started putting entire news reports in an archivable from online, but whatever – it’s great. This report is on the developing trend for mobile reporting, video footage online etc. Great stuff.

Natty review of last year’s citizen journalism highlights from Now Public.

UCLAN has managed to assemble an impressive list of luminaries for a discussion on 31 January. I’ll be there from lunchtime talking to students and lecturers, and generally making mischief. With a bit of luck I can nab some of their great speakers and extract some illumination…

I do apologise. There’s some caretaking to be done on this site but I’ve barely had time to breathe recently and have been of no fixed abode. Wherever I lay my hat etc. I don’t mind the homelessness – it’s the weblessness I can’t stand…