My favourite seven seconds of news this year
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View ArticleWhy there are no flies on The Pope
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View ArticleTime Out Cover Schedule 2010
I can't help but feel there's something a little repetitive about Time Out's cover features. Week 1: London for Free! Week 2: Hidden London! Week 3:Cheap Eats Week 4: Free London! Week 5: Secret...
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Not as good as they look, but at least they're up front about it.
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Jim? Jim..?
Viewers coming late to ITV’s coverage of tonight’s World Cup semi-final between Holland and Uruguay might have sensed something amiss. Something different about the commentary which perhaps they...
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Ideas Man: The Stranger Notions of Francis Galton
A few months ago I did a talk about the Victorian explorer, scientist, proto-Eugenicist, meteorologist, inventor and eccentric Sir Francis Galton. You'll notice I just tucked away the Eugenics bit in...
View ArticleI drain all the energy out of an Australian radio breakfast show
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Sympathetic Conversion For The Devil
I am eternally excited to live round the corner from Olympic Studios, which may lack the cachet of Abbey Road but more than made up for it with an incredible roster of artists and songs. The Who...
View ArticleWorld of Lather
Here's all the World Of Lather columns I've written so far for The Guardian: February: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/26/daniel-maier-world-lather March:...
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Videos Of Your Brain
Last week I replied to a Twitter request from Professor Sophie Scott (@sophiescott), who was looking for volunteers to take part in a study at the Speech Communication Laboratory at UCL. The study...
View ArticleMy Mercury Music Prize Predictions
We Catch Flies, Yer Mum – sparky, shambly lo-fi pop from Glasgow teens. Joy Lips, Neon Playroom – Norwich duo’s euphoric anthems. Black Thumbnail, Vol 1 – doomy feedback laden drum’n’bass from...
View ArticleStop American Creep!
Recent pieces in the New York Times, Guardian, Telegraph and on the BBC website (I've given up trying to hyperlink, I'm too techstupid. Just google 'Britishisms'.) detail some of the words and...
View ArticleBiography of a Sketch, aged 28.
In about 1985, in the Sixth Form Common room of Newcastle Royal Grammar School, I wrote my first comedy sketches. Nick Brownlee and I would make each other laugh with stupid ideas, go away and write...
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