Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Having three children under 10, a reasonable proportion of my time is spent watching children’s programmes. While I have of late been damning the notion that there is such thing…
Here is the original. Tom Shone’s big idea seemed more radical in 2005 than it does now – indeed now it is pretty much mainstream. The triumph of what is still…
From The Social Affairs Unit blog on January 5th 2005. Since this was written, and even more “modernised” version, the BBC’s “Sherlock”, has been made and widely celebrated. While I initially…
I have blogged before on television’s rise, rather than fall, in recent years, to become (seemingly) the dominant cultural force. I am always struck, when logging onto twitter, to see that the…
Yes, I can appreciate the irony of sharing this YouTube video on WordPress.
I read quite a lot of Neil Postman about a decade ago. Always a readable and provocative voice, I must admit I take him rather less seriously since reading more…
One of the disheartening things (for me) about how the online world has developed is the primacy of television as a cultural reference point. In the early years of…
Séamus Sweeney 