It has been reported in the news today that a mother died hours after giving birth in Shropshire. The details are still unclear pending an…
I'm upgrading my hosting. This may break a couple of links in the site and cause other screwy behaviour. Please bear with me as…
I finally caved in and bought a Wii this week. I’ve had a weird relationship with consoles. Ages ago, I wanted to go halves with…
There’s a great moment in the movie, The Untouchables, where Eliot Ness, watching Al Capone on trial, decides that the mobster is just a little…
Got a hero? I’m a big fan of George Orwell. Not only do I admire his incredible mind and writing, but he stuck his neck…
Humanist, socialist, World War Two veteran and one of the greatest writers and most original thinkers of all time died yesterday. He was 84. Kurt…
A few weeks ago, I was approached by the New Statesman Online team after they found my blog and decided they wanted me to write…
Saw this at Nev’s tonight and thought it worth posting up here. We got talking about a column I’m trying to write for the online…
I found this today, quite by chance and thought it was clever – a nice diagrammatical representation of observation versus revelation. Please click on the…
I found out about Kasabian when listening to the Jo Whiley Show in the car a little while ago. I noticed that they were playing…