Rob Blackhurst

I haven't managed to add a links page to this site, but there's a few fantastic blogs that I'd to add. Ok, so these people are all friends, but I think you'll find their sites as addictive as I do.

The Urban Woo - This site is like gorging on a box of chocolates - brilliant meditations on all the important things in life: parents, death, great pop records from the eighties. I like it most for its sharp observations on modern manners, and its skewering of the idiocies of celebrity. It amazes me that Woo isn't a household name. Utterly wonderful.

<http://www.benknight.de>is a great former theatre director, stand-up comedian and journalist and man of letters who now casts his erudite eye on everything from Brecht to German recycling habits to the World Cup from his perch in Berlin. He's a true diffident Englishman abroad, but, like, all the best Englishman, there's a passionate heart within.

Jack Thurston is a former Labour Special Advisor (though as far as you can possibly imagine for the picture that phrase conjures up) who went on to expose the failings of the Common Agricultural Policy through his sharp brain and Citizen Journalism media savvy. He's interested in cycling and its politics (He presents the Bike Show on Resonance FM), local democracy and the power of the net, sustainability, and the history of South London. My tip is that we'll see him reenter politic - born aloft on the backs of the cycling vote.

Johann Hari Ok, so he really needs little introduction. Clive James calls him "sparkling" and Stephen Fry retweets his work - which is high praise indeed. He's probably the most versatile journalist of his generation and has a fluency and productivity level that's positively Mozartian. If your familiar with his columns, make sure you check out his longer pieces of reportage for American magazines.