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We haven't done a halibut-related post for a while, so here is the news for halibuts : No halibuts were involved today when an Afghan...

This Daily Mail story about a young Brazilian woman called Catarina Migliorini auctioning off her virginity on the internet ( apparently...

My gorgeous and generously-cheeked daughter Nia and legendary Anglo-American film director Alfred Hitchcock, as immortalised in the little l...

This Daily Mail story about Zoe Ball appears mainly to be a tie-in for her presenting gig on one of the Strictly Come Dancing spin-off sh...

You'll recall my frustrated and directionless ire when some incompetent buffoon dinked my rear door in Tesco's car park. Well, afte...

Espedair Street by Iain Banks. Daniel "Weird" Weir is a rock star. Well, an ex-rock star these days, but a ruddy great big gl...

Never let it be said that I don't like a bit of politics from time to time; I mean, who doesn't? I do tend to avoid the party confer...

I was unaware of the irony of my linking of Fifty Shades Of Grey and the Twilight series at the time I wrote that previous post ; just goe...

Winter Garden by Beryl Bainbridge. Douglas Ashburner is one of those grey little men that were the source of much comical mileage bac...

Formerly outrageous hamsterphagic comedian and reality TV star , and current 1970s sex abuse accusee Freddie Starr , and former EastEnders...

A couple of follow-up thoughts on recent posts: I meant to add to the previous post, having inflicted the terrible lame punning title on ...

Much gloaty rejoicing after Europe's remarkable Ryder Cup victory last weekend, and why on earth not. I was down in Swanage for the annu...

Among all the predictable explosions of right-wing vitriol following the death of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm (a predictably more affe...

It's nice to see In Our Time back on Radio 4 on Thursday mornings, though it may mean that my Thursday morning punctuality may suffer a...

It's very easy to get caught up in the gleeful schadenfreude surrounding the Andrew Mitchell affair , and there's no doubt that with...

Millennium People by J.G. Ballard. David Markham is a psychologist (a typically Ballardian occupation) all set to jet off to America o...

Low by Cracker over some of the player background info sequences on Sky Sports' coverage of the final round of the Tour Championship . ...

Here's something I forgot to add to the previous post, but to be honest it was starting to get a bit long anyway. One of the things we d...

Here's a few notes on our trip to Cornwall last week - a sort of combination family holiday for the three of us combined with a substitu...

On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Before we start, chalk up another one for the list entitled Books I Bought Like A Gazillion Years Ago And ...