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Here's a crackpot theory for you, and, as all the best theories do, it has to do with Robert Redford, who died last week at the age of...

Here's another post inspired by some initial exchanges over on Twitter - it also shares a theme with this earlier post about imaginary...

Time for the end-of-year book and general blogging stats round-up. If asked to characterise 2021 in general terms I would probably respond b...

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 ...

Two motivational celebrity quotes for you today. The first is from the great Bill Hicks, whose views on the desirability of exciting and div...

By my reckoning no-one's called Jeremy Hunt (or anyone else) a cunt on live TV or radio for just over a year. Well, that run ended today...

Really tremendous work from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks this week in The Spectator , as befits the de facto spokesman for non-scary secular-ish Ju...

Here's one in the Daily Mail today: Well. We've all been there, haven't we? I myself had a lamb and mung bean curry last n...

I'm a day late, as his birthday was yesterday (he would have been 61) but I think it would be appropriate at this point to offer you a c...

As usually happens when I tune in to BBC Four , I happened upon something interesting while cooking dinner last night: Jonathan Meades ...

Latest missive from the strange planet on which Tiger Woods' ex- coach and current Sky Sports summariser Butch Harmon lives - a planet...

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. There's a Gore Vidal quote on the back of my Vintage edition of this book which says: Of all tasks...

I've seen this attributed to Democratic senator Tom Harkin , but it seems that it's probably older than that . You can understand t...

In the light of the decision to allow fat odious racist buffoon Nick Griffin to appear on BBC Question Time tonight and the storm of medi...

In the first place divest yourself of all bias in favour of novelty & singularity of opinion. Indulge them in any other subject rather t...

The unfortunate journalistic turn of phrase of the week award goes to the Independent 's article about the Quantum Of Solace premiere ...

Here's an amusing article highlighting the difficulties of automated text-editing, in this case to change every instance of the nice cu...

You'll have already seen the collection of photos we took on our weekend in Amsterdam. Here's a few randomly assembled thoughts abo...

Legendary science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke died in Sri Lanka yesterday, aged 90. As a writer I would say Clarke was more of a sourc...

A few pithy, or possibly pissy, quotes to liven up your lives and stimulate the cerebral muscles. Health warning attached: these are shots i...