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Not much competition for Welshman of the Day today; obviously it's going to be Geraint Thomas , the man who won the Tour de France at th...

There are a couple of interesting things about the whole YANNY vs. LAUREL sound illusion thing that's been sweeping the internet lately...

I was in Tesco the other day perusing the special offer shelf for beery bargains, as one does, and I spotted this beer that I hadn't see...

It's a few days late for the official anniversary but let me commemorate the 70th birthday of the National Health Service by appointing...

A couple for you today, the first of which illustrates a similar sort of problem as I have with making jokes on Twitter , i.e. how much chec...

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...