Monthly Archives: January 2015
SHEDNOTES 55: Who does Ed look like?
Today, The Shed’s modest contribution to the political debate is to suggest that nearly everyone has got it wrong about Ed Miliband. It is not Wallace he resembles so strikingly; it is Gromit. The Shed cannot prove it yet but … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 54: The beginning of world music consciousness
This is for Online & Off, The Shed’s collection of notes for documentaries to be made when the resources are available. See more at https://hack4hire.wordpress.com/category/aa-online-and-off/ In the Telegraph of 10.5.2010, world-music specialist Mark Hudson proposed that the market for world … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 52: Last Clean Shirt and some other good things
Three opinions into its 100-day election commentary, The Shed has been taking a break. It voted to spend a wet afternoon uploading some old notes on Last Clean Shirt, a hilariously rueful lament for Brother Bill, performed by Rufus Thomas … Continue reading
SHED NOTES 51: Some policy advice
The Shed likes to recall Denis Healey saying that being Labour did not stop him having “dark Tory urges” and the trouble with the liberal left is its failure to recognise the same thing in most of its missing voters. … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 50: 99 days to go …
99 days to go to Election Day and The Shed is still waiting to nod in sympathy with Ed Miliband but did sympathise with some of the comments made, on behalf of his lost voters, by Lisa Mackenzie, author of … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 49: 100 days to go
Today is the start of a 100-day countdown to the general election and The Shed, which is full of floating voters, resolves to make 100 comments on what it thinks. In a previous Shed, in another place, we discussed the … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 48: The Filofacts Grocery List
The Filofacts is a Shed production in progress at https://hack4hire.wordpress.com/category/the-filofacts/ The Shed does have tendencies which could probably fairly be described as on the spectrum and one of them is a little file of the groceries to buy when you … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 47: UNLOVED, UNDERPAID AND LOST IN THE TAMAR VALLEY
A Shed team recently tried to earn a bob or two on the side and submitted the following report … George Edwards reports on a venture into the sidestreets of the economy … No Hawkers, No Circulars, No Junk Mail. … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 46: REASONS TO BE GRATEFUL
history, reading for kids, ian mortimer, centuries of change, bodley head, history teaching materials The Shed has accepted a proposition that this is a reasonable time for a post on Ian Mortimer’s guide to 10 Of The Worst Years In … Continue reading
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SHEDNOTES 53: looking back to the roots of jihadism …
With 97 days to go to Election Day, The Shed makes room for a story written by one of its personnel for the Yorkshire Post in 2001 – in between the Bradford riots and the 7/11 attack on America – … Continue reading →