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My earlier cricket-related post was both right and wrong in roughly equal measure, as following his 176 in the Ahmedabad Test and 122 in M...

Once again I'm afraid I've failed you utterly in terms of informing you in a timely manner about the need to vote in the 2012 Bad F...

I'm not going to dress this up in any sort of pseudo-philosophical flummery or try to intellectually justify it in any way; what follows...

As you were, calm down, sit down at the back there: this is just a test post to check the functioning of the Blogger mobile app that I'v...

It's been a good week for salutary lessons about the differences between the UK and the USA, and indeed the salutary differences between...

Newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Bond villain (from Tomorrow Never Dies ) Elliot Carver aka Jonathan Pryce . One...

Clea by Lawrence Durrell. So this is the fourth and final instalment in the Alexandria Quartet, following on from Justine , Balthazar ...

As I've said before , you can keep your Hanging Gardens of Rutland and your Great Pyramid Of Hull, we've got stuff just as good righ...

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...