For a number of mornings in the past week, the nation woke up feeling disappointment and then despair, as riots spread across the capital and other British cities. In precisely one year’s time, Britons will also wake up feeling rather flat, but for wholly different reasons. 13th August 2012 is the ‘morning after’ the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, to be held in London. Continue reading “2012 Olympics: Another East End Soap Opera?”
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The News Cycle and my Sleep Cycle
One of my quirks is my need to have rolling news radio such as BBC Five Live on in the background as I’m falling asleep and when I wake up. It’s now quite habitual so, as with most habits, it goes largely unquestioned, but while it has kept me precociously informed for well over a decade now (the first news story I can remember being covered is the NATO air strikes of Bosnia) this unabating audible addiction has its drawbacks. For although news radio probably filled the psychological and vocal void left when I was too old to be read bedtime stories, rolling news and fairy tales quite obviously share little in common. Continue reading “The News Cycle and my Sleep Cycle”
Josh Cowls 