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Via Strange Maps and Pharyngula : here's an interesting sequence of maps showing the voting distribution in last week's US preside...

Songs that pull a specific lyrical trick on you: refer constantly to a woman by name, or by use of the phrase "my baby" or somethi...

I don't know what sequence of random external stimuli made my train of thought turn to the subject of Joanna Lumley 's anus, but it ...

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It's 1962 and Edward and Florence Mayhew have just got married and are staying in a hotel near Abbotsbur...

My faith in America is at least partially restored , despite my deep (and, it turns out, thankfully, unfounded) suspicion and paranoia abou...

Here's a selection of random pub encounters from the last few days, for your edification and possible future drinking and dining pleasur...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn . Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is an inmate in a Siberian prison camp for dissi...

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...