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As a tribute to the current exciting Test series being played between England and New Zealand, I offer you this two-item list: former New ...

Following on from my election manifesto What I'd Do If I Were In Charge as summarised here (alternative title: Things Are Going To Be ...

After the arrival of our second daughter Alys at the end of March I was determined not to spend quite as much time sitting around watching D...

The Ginger Man by JP Donleavy. Sebastian Dangerfield is a bit of a boy. An American, in Ireland to study for a law degree at Trinity Co...

Model and general showbiz socialite partygoing type Cara Delevingne , and Jay from various Kevin Smith films, as played by Jason Mewes an...

Hot on the heels of the John Inverdale moment , here's the BBC's Assistant Political Editor Norman Smith calling Nigel Farage a cun...

So, as we all settle down to watch the government snooping on our private communications, gleefully gutting and privatising the NHS , ruth...

Just to be clear: these are not the answers promised in the previous post . Those are coming later. This, instead, is my tribute to our undi...

After the crushing disappointment of last night (to all right-thinking people who are not smirking old Etonian Nazi space lizards, anyway), ...

Chalk up another entry on the list of novelists who have been featured on this blog and subsequently died of shame, or possibly of a nast...

In the midst of life we are in death,  sic transit gloria mundi , and all that sort of thing. I speak of course of none other than the fate...

As I think I've said before , I'm not big on baking , since it requires a degree of discipline and adherence to exactitude and reci...

All Tomorrow's Parties by William Gibson. You remember Berry Rydell, right? Ex-cop, now security operative for hire, last seen in V...

I am, as I think I've said before, not a betting man. I'm too mean, for one thing, and secondly I'm just too damn lazy to put in...

Let's do another mystery object , as we haven't done one of those, for, erm, about  three and a half years . So, uncle and youngest ...

Dead Air by Iain Banks. Ken Nott - né Ken McNutt before he de-Scottished himself a bit - is a radio DJ on a popular London station, a sta...

Indulge me briefly, if you will, and permit me a misty-eyed eulogy to my trusty old Ford Focus , which I sold earlier this week after owning...

The Dress Looks Nice On You by Sufjan Stevens in episode 7 of series 4 of Stella on Sky the other day. I'm a big fan of Stella , just...