15 February 2023

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2023

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...
14 February 2023

Moody: the works

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A list of links to all my non-tech writings: Essays Glanglish   - with audio versions  -  new post Travel writings Moody's Black Noteboo...
18 December 2022

Where to find me on Mastodon

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Since Elon Musk is trying to ban any mention of Mastodon on Twitter, I thought I'd just make it as easy as possible to find me on the fo...
13 January 2021

Doing the Business: a novel about the office

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Back in November, during the UK's second lockdown, I put online my novel about travel and tourism – " Egyptian Romance " – sin...
01 January 2021

Glanglish, and other Weekly Essays

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In 1990, before I had a go at writing a couple of novels, I put together Glanglish, a collection of short essays.  They are about nothing in...
09 November 2020

Egyptian Romance: a novel about travel

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Once again, many people are under lockdown.  Once again, travel is hard, or impossible.  During the first lockdown, I published my black not...
03 August 2020

Introduction to Moody's Black Notebook Travels

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I have two great regrets in my life.  One is eating a chicken sandwich in Varanasi, shortly before flying to Kathmandu.  This gave me the w...
01 August 2020

Walks with Lorenzetti: Venice, Memory, Tourism

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Just as  A Partial India  was a re-working of  my   travel   notebook  for India, so  Walks with Lorenzetti  re-visits  a 1988 trip I made ...
20 July 2020

A Partial India

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In October and November 1986, I went to India for the first time.  It was an important experience,  which I tried to capture as it happened...
18 October 2019

Brexit Vote: Please Write to Your MP Today

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As people may have heard, there is a rather important vote on Brexit tomorrow.  It's going to be very close, so I would like to urge e...
03 March 2019

This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP

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As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...
10 September 2018

Quick Letter to MEPs about Article 13 of Copyright Directive

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Yesterday, I wrote a post asking people to write to their MEPs about the imminent vote in the European Parliament on the Copyright Directi...
08 September 2018

Please Write (Yes, Again - Sorry) to Your MEPs to Stop the EU Copyright Directive from Seriously Harming the Internet

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Back in June, I wrote a long post about the proposed update to EU copyright law. As I explained, there are some bad ideas being proposed , ...
04 July 2018

Countering the Latest Misinformation about the EU Copyright Directive

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Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on whether to send its version of the Copyright Directive text to "trilogues" for fina...
02 July 2018

Please Write a *Short* Email to Your MEPs Today about EU Copyright Directive

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A couple of weeks ago, I urged people to write to their MEPs about an important vote in the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parl...
13 June 2018

Please Write to Your MEPs to Stop EU Copyright Directive from Seriously Harming the Internet

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Next week, a crucial vote will be held by the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament (JURI). It concerns the proposed copyrigh...