Jezza's Blog

No claims for originality here, except that I have metricated and reconfigured the amounts to fit my saucepan and fermenting vat. To m...

Last week I attended the 2 nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit on behalf of my employer, Ovum. It was probably the most exciting place ...

A random collection of links to documents - not all favoured, just a place to keep the links so as to file the hard copy (sometimes in the r...

Last night we went to see Bingo by Edward Bond. We were all pretty fed up with it, and bored at the absence of character or plot de...

I'm not a nationalist of any kind. I don't think that England would be better off without Scotland, and I wouldn't necessar...

I was surprised and disappointed to hear the BBC constantly repeat without any significant challenge the government claim that the public se...

I love the 'This Column Will Change Your Life' column in The Guardian, and this book is mainly a compilation of that. Things I par...

All political parties have political strategies. For the major political parties, the ones with the hope and prospect of forming a governm...

Hats off to Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers for writing this. They've synthesized and evangelized some disparate trends to show that there...

What's the attraction of arcologies , sea-steading , moveable cities and the like? Why are they such a common motif in popular culture...

Watched ' Life After Armageddon ', a US dram-doc, on Channel Five the other night. It depicts a society brought to collapse by an ou...

Yesterday I watched The Story of Stuff , an Internet video/film about the wastefulness of our throwaway consumerist society. It left me feel...

Dieter Rams' ten principles for good design The story of stuff The Kyoto Box solar stove It's Nice, That design blog The Plastiki bo...

At the Latitude Festival last weekend, I listened to David Aaronovitch talking about conspiracy theories, to promote his book Voodoo Histori...

It's easy to find stuff about Haringey Council's aspirations to be the ' greenest borough ', and even to find the specifics ...

Nokia's publicity about " Conspiracy for Good ", what appears to be some sort of immersive game around the theme of anti-globa...

Let's start by turning the armed forces from a cost centre to a profit centre. That way we won't have to spend anything on them at ...

I turned on the radio on Saturday morning to hear an Irish woman talking about the reaction to the Saville Inquiry and its conclusion. She t...

Watching the ‘Prime Ministerial Candidates’ debate, it was impossible not to be struck by how little difference there was between all three ...

The Government's own National Equality Pane l produced a report called Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK . It shows: The househ...