{"id":495,"date":"2005-05-17T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/17\/a-bit-of-nice-reading\/"},"modified":"2005-05-17T09:38:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T09:38:00","slug":"a-bit-of-nice-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/a-bit-of-nice-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit of nice reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

While remaining overworked and uninspired, there are a couple of interesting pieces over at The Sharpener<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First up is Third Avenue<\/a> with a great overview of precisely why referendums are so rubbish<\/a> and anathema to the British political system. After all, how can a “yes\/no” question possibly be enough to provide an indication of national feeling on issues as complex as devolution or the EU? Applying a strict monochrome interpretation to an issue which is decidedly greyscale is liable only to create further difficulties should the UK ever get to hold its referendum on the constitution.<\/p>\n

Then we have Meaders<\/a> on some of the faultlines which have sprung up after the general election, which is well worth a look. I think we can forgive him his partisan appeal<\/a> just this once…<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Curious Hamster has a handy linkdump of some topical stories from around the UK and the world amidst ponderings on what to do with his blog<\/a> now that the election has finished and us self-appointed pundits have to try a bit harder to dig out engaging stories.<\/p>\n

Still, expect some more of the usual trademark Nosemonkey wit and insight (*ahem*) tomorrow, probably – freelance deadlines are clogging up all my spare writing time. Hopefully by then I’ll have my radio working properly again so I can get the inspirational news hit that is The Today Programme when I wake up of a morning. Radio 3 is all very well and good, but Rachmaninov is hardly conducive to prompting topical news analysis. (And by the way – can anyone explain the mentality of running a pirate drum ‘n’ bass station at seven o’clock in the morning? The absolute bastards have wiped out Radio 4 completely for me…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While remaining overworked and uninspired, there are a couple of interesting pieces over at The Sharpener. First up is Third Avenue with a great overview of precisely why referendums are so rubbish and anathema to the British political system. After … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}