I once sat opposite famous journalist and editor Rosie Boycott at a business industry lunch, organised to discuss the issue of access to broadband for the British people. This was about three years ago when the issue was really quite political. People were generally concerned that lack of broadband access was was going to leave whole swathes of the UK population languishing in a primordial narrowband soup. In the end

Comedian Mark Steel, whose mere lectures are better than anything Michael Moore will ever produce, simply MUST start a blog. That’s all there is to it. Trotskyite or not, his presentation of not only history but contemporary politics is hilarious, but utterly cutting in it’s insight.