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In these changing and uncertain times, it's good to know that there are certain things that are constant, unchanging and reliable. Like ...

Another music-related public service announcement , offered in the hope that it may be of use: you may, one day, find yourself in the positi...

Having scoffingly questioned Brian Haw 's commitment to the cause when I visited Parliament Square the other week and found him conspic...

American golfer, twice nearly-man on the PGA tour this season , and one of the men currently tied for 15th place after three rounds of the...

I was in my local Sainsbury's the other day when I noticed a peculiar thing: I'd picked up a box of red wine and I thought it looke...

One's jeans yielding under the immense outward pressure imposed in the groinal department and subsequently requiring repairs is one thi...

Apparently it's Unearned Privilege Week here in the UK. It's also National Food Safety Week and Naked Bike Ride Week (not particul...

As I alluded to last time, I've got a bit of whisky blogging to catch up on, so here's another one. It wasn't so long since I sa...

I caught a bit of the lawyers' opening press statements in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case today; I was driving home at the time, with ...

While I'm on the subject of photo galleries I should also draw your attention to this one , which is a collection of photos taken at my ...

The lovely Hazel and I went up to London for a quick visit this weekend; in addition to popping in and visiting my sister we did some bog-s...

I haven't done a whisky post for a little while , and I've actually got a bit of a backlog of stuff to do, so here's the first o...

The Black Album by Hanif Kureishi. It's the tail-end of the 1980s, and Shahid Hassan, a young Pakistani Muslim, has left his cosy and f...

I got doorstepped by the Jehovah's Witnesses this morning - slightly surprisingly given their status as comedy staple I think that'...

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...