Since I started blogging, almost everything that I have written has been posted on here. But not absolutely everything; I occasionally wrote some blog posts and longform writing elsewhere. However, I’ve decided that I want to consolidate my previous writing here, and so there are some new ‘old’ blog posts available.
Medium
Over the years, I experimented with posting long-form pieces on my Medium account. This was primarily to see if I could reach a new audience, and also to see if I could get some money from Medium’s Partner Programme. Suffice to say, the most I ever made in a month was $1.14, and I haven’t earned anything in over two years, so I’ve republished everything here. It also helps to partially fill in the gap when I wasn’t blogging regularly between 2018 and 2022:
- Twittering the threads of the mastodontic blue sky diaspora – 31 October 2023
- How to make the most of your solar panels – 22 October 2023
- Why your next slow cooker should be a multi-cooker – 17 February 2021
- Some predictions about the post-Covid-19 ‘new normal’ – 18 July 2020
- Why I’ve sort-of quit Twitter – 15 January 2020
- Some collected thoughts about today’s London tube bomb – 15 September 2017
- Driving – 22 September 2016
- A piece of post-Brexit holiday fiction – 7 July 2016
- How Apple can make iTunes great again – 30 March 2016
- Here’s why friendly names are needed for Bluetooth devices on iOS – 21 October 2015
Stupid Evil Bastard
From time to time, I contributed guest posts to a blog called Stupid Evil Bastard, run by Les Jenkins. It was mainly focussed on atheism; back then, I identified more as a ‘capital A’ Atheist, rather than the more lowercase atheist that I identify as now. As such, some of these posts are more critical of religion than I would be now, and there’s a couple of posts I chose not to re-instate as it doesn’t reflect the views I presently hold.
Les sadly passed away in 2022, after being diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. His blog is no longer online, but you can read his final blog post and a tribute from his son on the Web Archive which thankfully preserved these entries. It also preserved my guest posts, and seeing as they’re no longer online otherwise, here they are:
- Schools deny girls cervical cancer jabs on religious grounds – 18 July 2012
- Is public healthcare in Britain really that bad? – 12 August 2009
- Archbishop of York gives the Pope a bottle of beer – 28 January 2008
- Father puts pins in son’s tongues because of God – 22 January 2008
- New British political leader doesn’t believe in God – 19 December 2007
- Richard Dawkins says he’s a ‘cultural Christian’ – 10 December 2007
- Hindu gods get summons from court – 7 December 2007
- Islamists call for the death of a British teacher over a teddy bear – 30 November 2007
- Man sees Allah’s name on a chapatti – 13 July 2007
- The Un-Funny Truth about Scientology – 26 June 2006
- Poorest Brits are healthier than Richest Americans – 7 May 2006
- British racist politician tries to justify his views on TV – 27 April 2006
