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The Guardian’s huge drug survey is extraordinary
The Guardian and Mixmag have done something quite incredible: a survey about drug use, conducted on an absolutely enormous scale, that gives phenomenal insight into the reasons people take drugs, and … more →
Lewis Denby
The Guardian's huge drug survey is extraordinary
wrote 2 months ago: The Guardian and Mixmag have done something quite incredible: a survey about drug use, conducted on … more →
Absolutely mental
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wrote 4 months ago: It was encouraging, the other day, to be shown a page in the Metro campaigning against mental health … more →
B.C. police refuse to reveal which drugs are deadly
wrote 4 months ago: A tweet from Ben Goldacre pointed me in the direction of something considerably alarming. In an abso … more →
The plan
wrote 4 months ago: The plan is to start using this blog far more often. Don’t worry, I’m not crazy enough t … more →
Ecstasy, or hysteria? Part 3: Of course, the tabloids
wrote 6 months ago: It was today, when searching the Internet for any reports of what actually killed two men in Ayrshir … more →
A poignant thing
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wrote 7 months ago: ‘The Alot is Better Than You at Everything’ is one of the funniest things I’ve eve … more →
Independently stupid: The 'Mano 10' nonsense continues
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wrote 7 months ago: I may have jumped the gun yesterday when I accused The Metro of making up a drug. It would seem, hav … more →
The Metro invents new killer drug
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wrote 7 months ago: Perhaps The Metro would like to explain this article, which purports to expose a “new danger d … more →
BeefJack's after a couple of writers
wrote 9 months ago: There are two new positions going at BeefJack. Senior writer, North America Senior writer, weekends … more →
So you want to be a games journalist...
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wrote 10 months ago: Mr. Savy Gamer himself, LewieP, suggested we “new wave” of games journos do some posts a … more →
Ecstasy, or hysteria? - part 2: some clarifications
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wrote 11 months ago: Yesterday I ranted for quite a while about the BBC’s coverage of two men’s deaths in Sco … more →
Ecstasy, or hysteria? - On the BBC's drugs reporting
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wrote 11 months ago: I’ve added a lengthy clarification to this post. Click here to read it. It’s become a bi … more →
Would you like to write about some stuff in an online magazine?
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wrote 1 year ago: Right, so, here’s a thing. For a while now, my girlfriend, her housemate and I have been playi … more →
These Are A Few Of My Favourite Things 2010
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wrote 1 year ago: A week of 2011 has gone by and I haven’t finished my listings yet! Oh gosh! As we all know, a … more →
On the student tuition fee rise
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wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday, more than half of Liberal Democrat MPs voted in favour of a rise in tuition fees. Here is … more →
That's Terror: Doing Deus Ex
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wrote 1 year ago: I’ve just returned from New York. I mentioned I was going there before. A holiday, I claimed. … more →
My Uncle's Charity Walk: Slap Cancer on the Nose
wrote 1 year ago: People who know me, or who’ve read my blog for a while, might know that my aunt passed away ar … more →
Suzie, Other Writing, and Stuff
wrote 1 year ago: I’ve given Suzie a new home. It seemes a shame to keep her languishing in the basement of this … more →
Twitter Research: My Dissertation, Online
wrote 1 year ago: Um, yes, I was going to be writing about my holiday day-by-day, wasn’t I? Sorry about that. I … more →
