‘First rough draft of history’– live blogging article for InPublishing
“I’ve always thought of the role of the live blogger as being a little like that of a radio DJ on a news-driven morning or drive-time show. You need to be lively and entertaining, you need to convey...
View Article“DO MY QUIZ!”– a new weekly online quiz for the Guardian
I am very excited that I am starting a new series at the Guardian which will allow me to shout “DO MY QUIZ!” at you rudely every Thursday lunchtime. My mantra for writing Guardian quizzes is that you...
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Happy birthday to the Guardian!
The Guardian is 200 years old today and there’s lots of stuff online to celebrate it. As I see it… STEP ONE: Start a radical campaigning newspaper in Manchester. STEP TWO: In two hundred years time,...
View ArticleStuart O’Connor
I was very sorry to hear that Stuart O’Connor, who was known as ScreenjabberStu on Twitter, has passed away in Australia. He was a colleague of mine who worked on the Guardian’s tech, media & games...
View ArticleLiving the Eurovision dream
No Friday Reading this week afraid because I have been too busy living the Eurovision dream. Not only have I put together the Guardian’s fiendish Eurovision quiz, but I am absolutely thrilled that for...
View ArticleDo my quiz! Euro 2020 version
I’ve had so much fun putting together a Euro 2020 football anthems quiz for the Guardian today that it seems a shame not to share it with you. When else am I ever going to be able to write three...
View ArticleSign up to get my Tokyo 2020 daily briefing for the Guardian
I’ve been pretty much live-blogging either US politics or the global coronavirus pandemic every weekday now since something like March last year, so I’m absolutely thrilled that I’ve got a bit of a...
View ArticleSign up for my Paralympics newsletter for the Guardian
A quick plug for my Guardian Paralympics newsletter, which will be starting daily for the duration of the Paralympics from Monday. I’ve already been lucky enough to interview a couple of the British...
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150th (week) birthday for the Guardian Thursday quiz
150 weeks ago I pressed publish for the first time on a quiz on the Guardian website which came to be known as the Guardian Thursday quiz. It had grown out of the fact that I had done a successful...
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I put all the Doctor Who actors into the correct order for you
So I’ve contributed for the first time to the Guardian’s “ – Ranked!” series with a subject dear to my heart. “Every Doctor Who episode – ranked!” was a step too far, as was “Every Doctor Who companion...
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Do my Guardian quiz about the Cure!
Clearly one of the best British bands of the last one hundred years, on Friday the Cure are releasing their first new album for 16 years. Regular readers will know that I do the Guardian’s Thursday...
View ArticleHow much internet ‘brain rot’ have I got to be able to write this quiz?
A little bit of bonus quiz action for a Monday. “Brain rot” has been announced as the Oxford word of the year, covering “overconsumption of material considered to be trivial or unchallenging”...
View ArticleThe Thursday quiz is back, baby!
This week – after a strike-induced hiatus – the Guardian Thursday quiz is back. And you get to see my dog Willow in a Christmas jumper, a lovely guest dog called Otis, lots of other cute animals, and...
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Defending animals unfairly maligned in movies …
If you missed it, yesterday I had a very silly article on the Guardian website in tow of news that Exeter University is offering a film studies module looking at how donkeys have been besmirched by the...
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Eurovision o’clock!
It is that time of the year when I turn into a one man walking Eurovision content machine. In the last couple of days I have supplied for the Guardian my annual Eurovision quiz, and also put on my...
View ArticleWhat happened to the Guardian Thursday quiz?
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had lots of lovely messages from people all asking what boils down to one question – “What happened to the Guardian Thursday quiz?” Regular readers will know that I...
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