Time to give up on Amnesty

Airports, bloody airports

While we’re on the subject of websites for creatives, I’ve just launched a whole network of sites for design professionals, the World Interior Design Network. I’m quite excited by the fact that it’ll be my first go at blogging professionally (although the blog isn’t available yet - grr IT development time).
The range of sites is [...]

Heathrow: the Sweetener that Ain’t

I just voted for West Midlands creative networking blog Created In Birmingham as the Best UK Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards, and I’d urge you to do the same.
No, I don’t particularly care about the Brummie creative arts world (much as I love Napalm Death and Jasper Carrott…), but they’re the entrant with the [...]

Q: Is my maths right that to add step-free access to this station would cost 0.0075 per cent of the overall Crossrail budget?
A: I am sure your maths is correct, my Lord, but the point I am making is that the whole project is made up of things which cost 0.0075 per cent of the [...]

Don’t bother switching banks

Another excellent piece from a sex worker

Nice quote:

Who’d have thought that we’d see Newcastle United sponsored by the Bank of England and Manchester United by the Federal Reserve?
(from here)

Boris makes a difference. Good news if you like dead women.

Targets *do* produce better healthcare outcomes

Best Glossary Ever

I found this lurking in one of my outboxes, and though it deserved an airing:
In the course of a single Crooked Timber thread, I seem to have come worryingly close to defending both genocide and forced child marriage
More than usual, please read the rest…

Blogger Lenin has some impartial [*] words on the future for the Caucasus after the current willy-waving:
a new Brzezinski-advised Obama administration would certainly focus far more intently on shoring up US power in Central Asia than continuing to fight the lost battle in Iraq.
It’s what we should have been doing for the last 15 years; [...]