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Good job I was only about 15 minutes late getting to work yesterday morning, as Start The Week with Andrew Marr on Radio 4 was shaping up t...

Here's a contribution to the ongoing debate over which 1980s celebrity the current Education Secretary Michael Gove most resembles: Pob...

Good to see the BBC keeping up their recently instigated tradition of dropping the c-bomb on live TV and radio at inopportune moments (no...

Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Redrick "Red" Schuhart is a stalker. What that means is that he makes a living sc...

As it was my birthday last weekend we decided to head off for an impromptu weekend away - fortunately we are within relatively easy reach of...

Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido. Dinah and Lisa de Bondt are two young sisters growing up in South Africa. Daughters of German par...

I'm sure many many others have blogged about the unique trials and frustrations of a trip to IKEA , so I won't add to the list - suf...

Right, more whisky. Don't mind if I do. These are both bottles acquired in different circumstances over the Christmas period which I...

Let's start with a headline of the day , before we move on to other more lofty matters. This is how the BBC introduced a story about th...

A bit more on the Alain de Botton atheist temple/tower debacle and associated matters, if you don't mind. Just to ease us into things, ...

I'm much more apathetic than I used to be (not as apathetic as I could be, but I can't be bothered to make the effort) about checki...

The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut. Frank Eloff is a South African doctor working at a delapidated hospital in one of the old apartheid-era ho...

Let's not imagine, even for a moment, that Really Bad Ideas are the sole preserve of the religious, goodness me no. Just when you think ...

Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks. So here we are again, back in the AI -moderated anarcho-utopia of the Culture. You'll remember from ...

Here's a couple of amusing items I've snapped on my handy phone-camera recently. Firstly I strayed into Clas Ohlson in the shiny ne...

Couple of brief items that may be of interest: If you can't be arsed sitting through the full 158 minutes of David Fincher's adaptat...

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien. Ah, bejaysus. So, anyway, our un-named narrator (a device we've seen before, here , here , here...

I dunno what the opposite of the Bad Faith Award would be - clearly Good Faith Award won't do for a number of reasons - but if there wa...