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I experienced a jarring moment while reading about the upcoming change in presenter on the Radio 2 breakfast show. I should make it clear th...

One other thing, also tangentially book-related: we went to a family gathering last week and it was held in the Community Centre in the vi...

I was inspired by my mention of going to school in West Bridgford in the early 1980s to try and find the two schools I went to. We were onl...

I tell you what, the life of a tedious atheist is not an easy one, especially at Christmas. I know I don't complain much about it on he...

Let's do another one, this time involving actual people rather than delicious items of breakfast pastry and birds of prey. Here's Ro...

I had an interesting exchange on Twitter earlier after I saw this tweet on my timeline, which basically makes the claim that, on the basis ...

Today's pair are our literal actual Lord and Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and Hollywood actor Chris Evans.  A couple of footnotes:...

The husband of newly-installed White House religious advisor (and, it hardly needs to be said, frothing batshit lunatic ) Paula White, and ...

Interesting to see that the Australian authorities have now banned altogether the hitherto merely frowned-upon tourist practice of climbing ...

We've expanded the scope of the lookeylikey posts lately to include things like islands and tubes of effervescent  tablets , so it wa...

I caught an episode of Open Book on Radio 4 in the car the other day, featuring the lovely Mariella Frostrup and including (at about 7:40 i...

One thing I forgot to mention in the last book review was that Barefoot In The Head is full of allusions to the mystical writings and teac...

This (via Pharyngula ) is absolutely tremendous: a new film (called, in slightly oh-what-a-giveaway style,  Let There Be Light   and starrin...

We went on a brief holiday to Pembrokeshire a couple of weeks ago - a week in a cottage that I see from this post we'd previously stay...

I'm just about keeping my head above water blog-wise with the book reviews and the noting of notable things in the worlds of golf ,  lit...