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As you know, I'm all about the Twitters these days, so when I had a thought in the wake of listening to Badge while writing the Jack Br...

Comedian and ubiquitous quizcom panellist Sean Lock, and film director Danny Boyle. I like Sean Lock, but I think he's one person who is...

Just a quick and slightly belated (since he died on Saturday) RIP for Jack Bruce , singer, songwriter and musician of many hats over the ye...

Couple of brief follow-up notes regarding previous posts, one recent, one not so recent. Firstly, it was unforgivably remiss of me to ne...

It's been a while , hasn't it? And great things have been afoot, so listen up. Following the last round-up, I decided that it w...

Here's the brief post-Swanage round-up. A bit of a mixed bag this year in terms of weather, but to be fair both the golf games were cond...

Fremder by Russell Hoban. Fremder Gorn is having a bit of a peculiar day. When we meet him, he's floating though space without spac...

I have a confession to make, and it's a slightly shameful one. Here it is: there is one thing about Nigel Farage that I find admirable. ...

It was, of course, inevitable that in the wake of the mainstream media interest in the atheist community's sexism problems there would...

Swanage 2014 photos to follow in due course, but in the meantime here's a small gallery of pictures I took when we went on a brief fam...

Just a very quick one to say: if you happen to want to keep up with the 2014 Swanage activities in real time then your best bet is to do on...

Next weekend sees us head off in Andy's Land Rover for the annual Swanage trip , a fixture in my social calendar for, ooh , ten years ...

You might remember my adventures in the loft a while back, and the ancient yellowed newspaper fragments I retrieved, which included (among ...

So here's another crash blossom for you, from the BBC website today: Naturally you'll have a mental image, as I did, of a foxy...

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,...