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Just a quick round-up in the aftermath of Europe's victory in the Ryder Cup . Firstly an updated version of my points table from last ti...

I was anticipating a bit of cathartic shouting at the radio this morning once it was announced that one of the guests on Start The Week wou...

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith. So, what's Tom Ripley  been up to? When we left him at the end of Ripley Under Ground he...

Everyone else is doing their My Favourite Ryder Cup Moments bit at the moment, so I'm going to get in on the act as well. I actually cam...

Some extremely amusing furore this week over the publication of some new material by double Booker winner Hilary Mantel, in particular th...

You know that thing where you think you've thought of a great thing, and you discover just after putting it on Twitter that you're,...

You'll be moist with suppressed anticipation at the state of the kitchen light bulbs, given that the last update was back in mid-June, ...

Quick follow-up as that last one was threatening to get a bit long: what we REALLY DON'T WANT to get into with the rationalist/atheist ...

Here's the opening part of a conversation (well, a small section of a longer conversation) that happened in the atheist blogosphere and ...

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie. It's August 1947, and great things are afoot, specifically the moment that India gains i...

Times are tough at Halibut Towers, just as they are everywhere else, so there's been precious little spare cash for spunking on extravag...

This article by Suzanne Moore in the Guardian is very good, focusing as it does on the GQ award of Philanthropist of the Year to one Ton...

I was standing around in the car park at Greenmeadow Golf Club with my friend Huw the other day having a conversation about death, as one ...

There have been a couple of moments of late where I considered adding a footnote so one of the many Richard Dawkins/Twitter/foot/mouth incid...

It's that time of year again, where I stock up with a vast quantity of Korean noodles to see me safely through the winter. This year...

It was as recently as September 2007 that I mentioned having attended a christening, and the attendant difficulties this poses for the comm...

Having roundly mocked the Desert Island Discs choices of both Hilary Devey (in a post mostly dedicated to Margaret Thatcher) and Sister W...