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As so often, what's so interesting about all the nonsense surrounding the latest Judgment Day prediction is not so much the specifics ...

A Good Man In Africa by William Boyd. Morgan Leafy is a mid-ranking British diplomat in the fictional African country of Kinjanja. This is ...

Here's a couple more things in similar vein to the last post : firstly here's another demolition film , this one showing the dismant...

Talk amongst yourselves for a bit while I indulge my odd obsession with maps, industrial architecture in general and old railway remnants i...

Mountolive by Lawrence Durrell. This is volume three of the Alexandria Quartet, following on from Justine and Balthazar as previously feat...

Yeah, all right, last word on this for the moment - here's the Independent 's Johann Hari with a cogent summary of the viewpoint of...

You'll recall I provided a few links to Robert Llewellyn's Carpool a while back - I've caught a few of the shows following its...

I'm not going to tackle the subject of the Royal Wedding face-on as it would be a) the longest blog post ever and b) a torrential outp...

Not being subject to the mass outbreak of flag-waving Stockholm Syndrome that seems to have gripped the rest of the nation in the run-up to...

Reading Martin Amis's piece on Christopher Hitchens in the Guardian prompted a few thoughts, the first being: Christ, get a room, boys ...

The Light Of Day by Graham Swift. George Webb is an ex-cop, thrown off the force after being caught coercing a witness to try to secure a c...

As it was such a nice day on Friday I thought I'd take the mountain bike out for its first spin of the year. Plus, what better way to c...

There was an interesting article in the New Statesman this week, which basically asked the question of various prominent people who profes...

My getting to work timing was pretty much spot on yesterday morning: late enough to catch the start of Start The Week after the 9 o'clo...

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. It's some time in the 21st century in what used to be Los Angeles, and Hiro Protagonist is delivering a ...

One thing I do remember observing in the ill-fated phantom book review of the other day was that the thing of someone dying and leaving som...

You'll recall that back in the halcyon days of cheese racing , when we were featured in Kerrang! and harboured crazy dreams of one day ...

Spotted while driving from Usk to Pontypool yesterday - a new entry in the series Amusing Road Sign Noun/Verb Confusion . This one said ...

Just heard this on the Masters golf coverage - one of the American commentators alluding to Miguel Ángel Jiménez and his legendary fondness...

On the way back from Usk I popped over to Morrison's in Rogerstone to do a bit of shopping, and being in an expansive sunny Saturday so...