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Today's Daily Mail in particularly fine stating the bleedin' obvious vein: In other shock revelations, if you look like a d...

An extraordinary amount has been written, and rightly so, on the occasion of the retirement from Test cricket of Sachin Tendulkar , the mo...

Much has been written following the death of Doris Lessing, who died on Sunday at the impressive age of 94. So I won't add much except t...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle. It's 1968, and Paddy Clarke is ten years old. He lives in Barrytown, north Dublin, a fairly g...

We went over to see our friends Jenny and Jim at the weekend, since they're imminently going to be elbow-deep in nappies and arse cream ...

As my wife will tell you at prodigious length at the slightest provocation, my daughter takes after me in a large number of ways. For one t...

Here's a Bloke Skills-related confession: I am neither especially interested in, nor especially knowledgeable about, cars. Just to be cl...

I suppose I'm bound to have heard Walk On The Wild Side on the radio a few times as a child, but my first conscious exposure to Lou R...

Inspired by this disturbing and effective series of consciousness-raising adverts , and also by my earlier research activities in a similar...

Just to expand a bit on the cryptozoology/religion parallels drawn in the previous post , one of the dangers of making any sort of (even in ...

What did I tell you ? Here's Noel Gallagher, bless him, esteemed composer of at least two good and worthwhile songs during his lifetim...

I was a bit torn while watching Bigfoot Files last night between thinking, well, this is actually quite sciencey and objective compared wit...

While I thoroughly enjoy the freedom to ramble inconsequentially at unnecessary length that the blogging platform affords me, I've alway...

Thirty seconds or so of the late John Martyn 's sublime Small Hours over a bit of the Indian section of the second part of Stephen Fry ...

My good buds at Bud's Gun Shop have been e-mailing me again ; I think their latest may just be the best one yet. As usual here it is i...

Fellow bridge enthusiasts will recognise the genius of this Guardian article immediately - inviting photos and reminiscences of well-love...

Leading The Cheers by Justin Cartwright. Dan Silas is at a bit of a loose end; newly single after splitting up with his girlfriend Step...

A sporting one for you, featuring one of today's European heroes in the Seve Trophy and current Wales Open champion  Grégory Bourdy , ...

I was picked up and taken to task, and quite rightly, by my good friend Doug a short while back for using the phrase "achingly dull...

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. We're in an un-named South American country, where the ruling regime have arranged an operatic recital f...