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By my reckoning no-one's called Jeremy Hunt (or anyone else) a cunt on live TV or radio for just over a year. Well, that run ended today...

A partly World Cup -themed offering today, almost certainly the one and only time you'll see the World Cup mentioned on this blog, footb...

Mountain hiking, Paul, is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. As exciting as it is to conquer  a new one every week, there is...

I was just catching up with some recent posts on the fascinating Language Log and I came across this one which includes a link to this w...

A Kind Of Loving by Stan Barstow. Eeeeh, it's grim oop North, ah tell thee. Happen tha'll get home from't pit and be all re...

Today sees the Curse Of Electric Halibut in particularly deadly form, as we learn of the death of American novelist Philip Roth. Roth was ...

The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West. Tod Hackett is a young and talented artist. Hardest game in the world , though, the old young ...

Let's do another whisky post, wherein I bemoan the fact that I don't get to do whisky posts any more because I've got five kids ...

As promised, a follow-up on the earlier post about our week's holiday in the Lake District. Part one was mainly ticking off some low-le...

On The Beach by Nevil Shute. It's 1963. We're in Melbourne. Melbourne's nice, isn't it? The sea, the cricket, the Royal...

Pig by Andrew Cowan. Danny is in his mid-teens, probably 15 or 16, and lives with his parents and slobbish elder brother Richard in som...

We had a week's family holiday in the Lake District last week. As you can imagine if you know me at all, this will have comprised lots o...

True Grit by Charles Portis. Life isn't easy in the old West. The rule of law is a tenuous thing and often the manner of its applic...

A high culture/low culture mash-up today, you might say, if you were as snobbish and patronising as me; Chilean politician, poet and Nobel l...

Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. Our protagonist, Antoine Roquentin, is a writer trying to write a biography of some 18th-century French poli...