IF YOUR bedtime reading choices say as much about you as your iTunes downloads – and we all know how important they are, because Top People like Barak Obama and, um, Gordon Brown, have shared their playlists (fyi, their faves are Jay-Z and Arctic Monkeys respectively) – then I’ve become a bit of a radical.
BENJAMIN Till, composer of the award-winning A Symphony For Yorkshire and Ebor Vox, a choral work performed for York’s 800th anniversary of the royal charter in 2012, commemorates the centenary of the First World War from a uniquely Yorkshire perspective in Brass.
The news about the zombie apocalypse in Brighton and Hove has not, I feel, been given the attention it deserves. You’d have thought that real live – well, undead – zombies lurching through the streets on the south coast would have caused a bit of a stir.
THE crisis kicked off a week ago. "OK, I give in," I posted on Facebook. "Where does one buy yellow bunting round here?"
THIS is totally the wrong time to be bike-less. Well, the wrong time in Yorkshire anyway, given the Tour de France frenzy. You can’t open this newspaper without seeing pictures of people doing wacky or ambitious things by bike. Actually, I’ve been in one of them, but more of that later.
WHAT’S the best way to engage a community? Proposing to chop down trees is a good bet. Planning applications for wind turbines are a no-brainer. Or you can introduce traffic restrictions that prioritise public transport – and bingo, job done.
SOUTH east finally wiped clean by the wrath of God turns out to be one of the less alarmist headlines I’ve come across this week on the high levels of air pollution. And not just because it came from The Daily Mash, which does a fine job of parodying popular print journalism.
IT’S Climate Week this week. Did you know that? It’s caught me by surprise, and I’m plugged into environmental networks.
BONG! “Here is the news. As Cuadrilla announces two more exploratory drilling sites for shale gas in Lancashire, Chancellor George Osborne claims victory in the battle for hearts and minds over fracking, saying a broad consensus is in favour.”
HOW are the New Year’s resolutions going? Have you been to the gym yet? Mine was to not make any resolutions at all and then, I’ll be damned, I found myself going vegan by accident.
