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We went to the Cowbridge Food Festival today, always a reliable source of tempting yet expensive gourmet items. Today's haul (pictured...

The Very Model Of A Man by Howard Jacobson. A good story has a beginning, a middle and an end, they say. And this one has a beginning, all ...

I went to Kwik-Fit the other day. Nothing so very out of the ordinary in that, you might say, and of course you would be right. It was just ...

It's tabloid innumeracy time again. Have a look at this Daily Mail story about some canoe-footed freak who sent off for a pair of sli...

More interesting and revealing word choices from the Daily Mail today as they attempt to wind their readership up to a frothing climax of r...

Here's a couple selected from the team I confidently expect, after today's awesome performance against Australia in the semi-final, ...

Just as the producers of the Ed Sullivan Show discovered in the mid-1960s when they took exception to the line " trying to make some g...

Hearken ye back, my friends, if you will, to the brief bit I did some time back about the Bill Bailey gig we'd been to in Bristol. Now ...

I reckon this has been one of the more interesting Rugby World Cups, and of course it's not over yet. My overall opinion may yet be colo...

We're all accustomed to clearing a bit of spam out of our webmail accounts - you know, that phishing, advance fee fraud and herbal Viag...

Havoc, In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett. It's some time shortly after 1630 - no, not half past four, you idiot, the year 1630. Which...

It appears, tragically, that the story of Percy Foster , dwarf, porn star and Gordon Ramsay lookeylikey, and his tragic death in a badger se...

Following on from my pointless bitching at the tail-end of the last post , here's another thing that always strikes me as odd - more in ...

I've now seen a couple of trailers for the English-language version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , and, well, it looks like it m...

I think it's perhaps time for a bit of a round-up of some recent religious lunacy. Remember, I seek this stuff out so that you don't...

Children Of Darkness And Light by Nicholas Mosley. Harry is a journalist, slightly rumpled and morally compromised and borderline alcoholic...

Kudos to legendary American rock band REM for bowing out with dignity this week, rather than just milking it on the live circuit for the n...

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. A bit of a rum cove, Robert Neville. Holed up in his house drinking whisky and obsessively sharpening bits...

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. A bit of a rum cove, Tom Ripley. Fingers in pies, a few little shady ventures on the go, mo...