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Couple of brief follow-ups on the Granddaughtergate fiasco: Adrian Edmondson in the Independent seems to have a pretty sensible perspecti...

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

Hey, it's Mel again . This time she's having a bit of a rant about the entirely contrived non-story about Jonathan Ross and Russell ...

I've started to get slightly paranoid about these; I think it must be the drugs. So I've thought of a couple over the course of the ...

Hazel's father's job means that he has contacts in the farming community, and occasionally the opportunity of getting hold of some ...

It's neither big nor clever to mock the mentally ill, but it is sometimes quite amusing, so to my way of thinking that makes it all righ...

We went to the Cowbridge Food and Drink Festival yesterday (that's my hand-stamp pictured on the left, which cost me the princely sum o...

In a highly gratifying outbreak of rationality, the British Humanist Association 's fundraising drive to finance some adverts on the s...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald . The 1920s - it wasn't all cocktails, yachting, jazz and doing the Charleston on the verandah...

Mad Mel surpasses even her own usual level of bug-eyed slavering insanity in The Spectator this week with the shock revelation that the c...

I was at a loose end this afternoon so I thought I'd go out and enjoy the sunshine for a bit. A quick glance at the map revealed some si...

The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies . Dr. Jonathan Hullah is a practitioner of holistic medicine in Toronto and a renowned diagnostician (t...

One last Lakeland anecdote: we were in a couple of camping and outdoor shops at the weekend (of which there are many in Keswick , as you mig...

Just a few notes from our long weekend in the Lake District. Despite the torrential rain on the M6 on the way up on Saturday, Sunday was gl...

Queens Of The Stone Age 's thunderous You Think I Ain't Worth A Dollar, But I Feel Like A Millionaire in a trailer for the Vin Dies...

The Sarah Palin debate flowchart .

Spirit 's 1968 single I Got A Line On You in the trailer to the new Coen Brothers movie Burn After Reading . Spirit's classic 197...

My last two (unrelated) blog posts magically linked . Almost like my mind is....controlling events in some way. Unfortunately, no-one can ...

Still can't spare the several hours required to construct a cogently-argued analysis of the complex issues in the run-up to the US presi...

We seem to have a bit of a cat infestation in the garden of late. Not that I object or anything; I like cats. There are a couple of them, bo...