2021
Humble Pi: A comedy of maths errors
Standup Mathematician Matt Parker – who I know of via the old Festival Of The Spoken Nerd shows when I lived in London, and latterly his appearances on the wonderful Numberphile YouTube channel and A Problem Squared podcast – has collected an anthology of maths-related disasters to show how important it is, and what sort…
The joy of philosophy. Of whisky.
The challenging thing about when one of your best mates publishes a whisky book is how is it possible to review it with any sense of objectivity? Well, the beauty of this being a personal blog is that I don’t HAVE to be objective – and can just get on with espousing my enthusiasm for…
Inside Black Mirror
Superb interview transcripts discussing the conception & production of the first 4 seasons of Black Mirror – detailing not only storyline & production, but also the goings-on-at-the-time in terms of budgetary constraint and the move to Netflix, the actors they were able to get, production design… everything! And all pinned together by the easy conversational…
I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year
What an absolute prick. So, this book was the sequel to what was, predictably, an account of the first 3 years of the Trump Presidency. I don’t know where to start. The authors used their credibility to gain access to talk to key players in the saga, to obtain minutes, recordings and transcripts, and collate…
