A young woman from the housing co-op mentioned this blog in her tweets. I wasn’t entirely surprised by the subject -its a good thing that younger people in the UK are considering the political/cultural implications of their computer games; but hadn’t expected the articles below to also have been in the Morning Star (UK socialist newspaper)!
Last time I had read this (about 1999) I thought it was written by some middle aged journos who, if they had computers at all, would more likely still be using something like a shared CP/M system built out of hoarded components and some assistance from Germany and Denmark; and no one under 50 wrote for this paper (or read it!)
It does appear the blog writer was a subeditor for them until recently and has had these articles published, whether he still writes for them is unclear. The rest of the Morning Star which I looked at for old times sake does still read like it was written by half of your schoolteachers from the 1980s – the arts/footy sections are behind a paywall – which at least gave me a laugh (and it is not full with trackers like the Grauniad or requires you to log in like De Volkskrant). I did find his articles eventually but the way they are laid out (which makes sense for dead tree newspapers) gets him mixed up with lots of other reporters. I can half understand why left wing organisations would do this but it makes an interesting article much harder to find online….
At least they have let Simon keep his copyright and the independent blog.
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