Patrick Howard
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Patrick is unemployed, but he doesn't want your pity. He's a trenchant enthusiast of pop music and good TV who knows his way around Arabic verb morphology. He would like to characterise his approach to commentary as serious and light in equal measure, but he frequently just ends up being arch.

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Get Your Feet Off My Neck, Bigot

(0) Comments | Posted 14 June 2012 | (00:08)

The gay marriage question was back from holiday yesterday as a flock of bishops, blind to the embarrassing irony of their Church's birth in divorce, hurried to the market for a controlling share in the sanctity of marriage. Calm your tits, boys, no-one's trying (hard, yet) to disestablish you. Call...

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Glee Isn't Living Up to Its Promises

(8) Comments | Posted 25 April 2012 | (00:00)

When Glee started in 2009 it was fresh and, in its way, bold. An assemblage of misfits and malcontents, galvanised by their collective marginality and the vocal ability they (fortunately) had in common, were going to forge their own legitimacy outside the social mainstream of an American High School.

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