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I took advantage of some free time yesterday to decant this year's fruity gin - I had some sloes and some damsons so I decided, rather t...

Just to illustrate the problem with the drugs "debate", here's a Daily Mail article from this week following the broadcast ...

It did of course go spectacularly tits up eventually , but I suppose you might say that the last government at least started off with the ...

A quick addition to the Christmas whisky post : I did also buy a bottle for myself, just as a reward to me , for being me , since it was one...

What better time to deliver on my implied promise/threat of another haggis recipe than on Burns Night ? Well, the morning after Burns Night...

I have had a bit of a pop at the current state of the venerable BBC science magazine Horizon in the past , and I stand by most of that, bu...

It's old news now, as it apparently happened back in July 2010, but is anyone else mildly alarmed at the news that former US Vice-Presid...

Here's a couple of crash blossoms for you, carefully harvested from today's news headlines: So.....the kid is so pissed off after b...

A multiple-choice one for you today, involving Conservative Education Secretary Michael Gove . Doug says strange incomprehensible 1980s kid...

Annoyingly, it seems any future wordy rants will have to be run through a sort of pre-posting filter to ensure that there isn't already ...

Like any aspiring Grammar Nazi , I pick and choose what to get all aerated and arsey about based on nothing more rational and empirical tha...

Mention of my favourite John Wyndham book The Chrysalids in the last book review reminds me of an interesting bit of trivia I picked up t...

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Kathy is a late-twentysomething or early-thirtysomething with some sort of job in social work, medical c...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch. I have a venerable paperback copy of the Faber Book of Parodies which contains a brief (5 page...

Leading member of Australia's frankly inadequate trundly medium-pace Ashes bowling attack Peter Siddle and Marty McFly's nemesis in...

I have, as usual, little to say about queasily exploitative pub karaoke shitefest X Factor , so I simply offer you my wry amusement at the ...

Time for the ceremonial tasting of the Christmas whisky gifts. Santa emptied his bulging sack down my eager chimney to the tune of two bottl...

Here's a bit more Beefheart for you: a BBC documentary from 1997, narrated, almost inevitably, by John Peel. Part one is here , and it...

So it's RIP to the legendary Captain Beefheart , who died a couple of days ago. If you wanted to out-weird your friends when I was at u...

Just a brief round-up of a few things: I've applied an update to both the drink and mountain top photo galleries - and not before time...