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While I'm on the subject of Republican morality I must just mention this story in the Independent today, as it was referenced on The Pa...

Just a brief postscript to my vaguely US election-flavoured ramblings earlier - this Doonesbury cartoon from a few months back, which makes...

Hocus Pocus by Focus over the closing credits of the new series of Saxondale . I haven't seen any of the second series beyond the 5 m...

The Hitch is on a book tour of America in support of his new book , and he's writing about it in his Vanity Fair column , with his usua...

Eclipse by John Banville. So: actor Alexander Cleave has an attack of stagefright and flees the theatre scene to take refuge in his childho...

Expanded version of earlier post with a new link to the Yorkshire photos , as the first lot only seemed to upload partially. A few accompany...

It's probably very much the outside scoop to those who are aficionados of The O.C. , but I heard Imogen Heap 's Hide And Seek on J...

It's late, so I'll keep this brief - here are some photos from our trip up north last week, comprising: Andy & Rachel's wedd...

....for a week and a bit anyway, as Hazel and I are off on holiday for a week and I don't anticipate having internet access. We're o...

Bit of a badge of honour, really - Electric Halibut tells it like it is, doesn't take any jibba jabba from no jive turkey, still less f...

Brief footnote to the previous post: Doug and I went to Glastonbury in 2002 and Roger Waters was one of the headlining acts (mid-evening on...

The Wall by Pink Floyd. This review will be in the form of a few seemingly unconnected random observations. Here goes: Pink Floyd are brack...

Stephen Glover nails the slight weirdness of the case against Channel 4's Dispatches programme Undercover Mosque - unless the program...

...the occasionally irritating but occasionally spot-on Charlie Brooker in spot-on mode in the Guardian yesterday on Richard Dawkins' n...

Led Zeppelin's Communication Breakdown from their first album on BBC3's The Real Hustle . There's a whole lengthy blog post her...

I've just caught, pretty much by accident, an adaptation of John Wyndham 's short story Random Quest on BBC4 . It was fine, not the...

One of the things I like very much about The Independent is that it offers a broad range of views, some corresponding roughly with my own, ...

Former Empire Of The Sun (there's that JG Ballard connection again) child star and current scary method acting obsessive Christian Ba...

I played golf this evening up at Woodlands in Bradley Stoke; shot 91 which was pretty good considering I hadn't played since about Marc...

The Inner Circle by T.C. Boyle. You'll recall (if you've been paying attention) that I read a Boyle not so long ago - well, I was ...