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I had to do a quick run down to Tesco to pick up some lunch supplies earlier, and happened therefore to be in the car with Radio 4 on betwe...

I seem to have accumulated a few foody pics on the camera, so here they are with a few explanatory recipe notes. Spanish Stew & Tortilla...

As we discovered yesterday , if there's one thing that we know about scientists, it's that they are godless killing machines and col...

In linking to the excellent New Humanist blog in yesterday's post I noticed that they are currently inviting nominations for the 2009...

It's difficult to tear your hair out while at the wheel of a car on the motorway, and just as well as I have little enough of it to spar...

Conservative party candidate and current source of minor media frenzy Elizabeth Truss, and Irish rugby hero (and their saviour yet again o...

By way of a tribute to Edward Woodward , who died today , here's the climactic scene from the classic 1973 film The Wicker Man . Just t...

G. by John Berger. John Berger 's career and public profile follows an interesting trajectory: painter and art critic and occasional no...

So when I read in the papers on Monday that both of the two £90 million Euromillions enormo-rollover jackpot-winning tickets were bought in ...

I've just had the misfortune to witness the final stages of the X Factor sing-off, and with reference to John & Edward's perfor...

Here's something I was discussing at work earlier and which might prove useful: how to link to a YouTube clip at a specific starting tim...

More interesting footnotes to the drug advisor sacking fiasco : firstly this article in the New Scientist by David Nutt himself presents a...

Couple of further bits on the government drug advisor fiasco - firstly Keith Vaz steams in with a textbook display of Just Not Getting It...

Couple of further things in relation to the earlier Scientology posts - firstly this very amusing article regarding some new uniforms that...

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...