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The bottle of Highland Park I bought back in early June finally bit the dust the other day, so I had half an eye out for another one while ...

I'll tell you what annoys me about those Stella Artois 4 adverts, since you ask. It's not the general content of the adverts themse...

There's a much longer post to be written about Home Secretary Alan Johnson's sacking of the government's chief drugs advisor Pr...

I'm grateful to the people at spEak You're bRanes for their championing of the fine work of novelist Cuger Brant aka regular BBC...

It would be remiss of me not to link to the other Scientology story of the week, which is the one about the CoS getting fined the best part ...

If, in a scenario even more unlikely than the previous one , you decide to follow the flowchart path that leads you to Scientology , here...

In the frankly unlikely event that you've been inspired to go and join a religious group by reading this blog, you'll be wanting to ...

You know that chest on the floor, arse in the air thing dogs do when they want you to chase them, throw a stick for them, or some other depr...

Songs that have repetitive codas (varying from the brief-ish to the interminable) that, on the whole, they'd be better off without. Son...

An interesting discussion in the comments to a recent post prompts me (via some thought association which isn't perhaps immediately obv...

As the weather forecast for today was quite good I had planned to go and have a look at Fan Brycheiniog over in the less-frequented western...

Firstly, philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell and actor Gary Oldman in his guise as Count Dracula from Francis Ford Coppola...

The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate. It's the autumn of 1913, and a party of guests has gathered at the country estate of Sir Randolp...

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...

Today's notable death of someone I didn't even know was still alive: broadcaster Ludovic Kennedy , who was 89 (actually, about a f...

Second instalment of the great pre-Christmas drink brewing extravaganza: damson gin. I won't go into the recipe in great detail as it...

We've had kosher telephones . We've had kosher light switches . This week's contenders for the prize for extreme religious silli...

Couple of follow-ups (follows-up? I dunno) to the previous posts which may be of interest: Ralph Lauren have taken the criticism of the do...

There's an entertaining interview with The Prodigy in this month's Q magazine , wherein Keith Flint outlines his plans for the ste...