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A quick word on the demise of JJ Cale , who died  aged 74 at the weekend . He's one of those guys people know more through his songs be...

Last one for the moment, I promise: one of the other things I've experienced in the course of general Facebook discourse illustrates qu...

I should point out that while the conversation referenced in that last post was a pretty good stab at filling out the Unthinking Deference ...

I had an educational exchange of views on Facebook last night which helped to crystallise some of my annoyance about the acres of uncriti...

The History Of Love by Nicole Krauss. Leopold Gursky is knocking on a bit, probably eightysomething. He's a retired Jewish locksmit...

So, Wimbledon, belatedly. Actually, if I can just get you to imagine some sort of summary/analysis thing complete with plaudits for Andy Mur...

As I've said before , Newport isn't the obvious city of choice if you're looking for somewhere to live or visit - off the top o...

I don't get to buy, let alone drink, as much whisky as I used to back in the pre-bairn disposable income glory glory days, but just occ...

My Summer Of Love by Helen Cross. It's the mid-1980s, and we're somewhere in Yorkshire, where 15-year-old Mona lives in a pub w...

Wimbledon hero and quarter-final escapologist Andy Murray in trademark self-excoriating square-mouthed bellow-y pose, and Garrett Morris i...

Really tremendous work from Rabbi Jonathan Sacks this week in The Spectator , as befits the de facto spokesman for non-scary secular-ish Ju...

Here's one in the Daily Mail today: Well. We've all been there, haven't we? I myself had a lamb and mung bean curry last n...

Just a couple of quickies in the wake (geddit?) of my post on the death of Iain Banks : firstly, this appears to be the last interview he...

Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith. Impulse . Men just can't help acting on it. Least of all Tom Ripley, as we know from ou...

My clever and beautiful daughter, in addition to being a) impossibly cute and b) a frickin' genius, was thoughtful enough to buy me a ni...

By way of a tribute to the late Iain Banks , here's a belated look at a couple of bottles of whisky I acquired around Christmas and New ...

This week's other notable (or, to be more accurate, noted by me) literary death was Tom Sharpe . I own eight Sharpe books, though I wo...

Sad to hear of the death of Iain Banks this week - something that was clearly going to happen some time in the year or so following his a...

Following on from yesterday's post , another little oddity of the users in UK, servers in Germany set-up is that Bing (like Google) atte...

At work we've just had a bit of a server rationalisation project, one of the side-effects of which is that our main web servers are now ...