Amusing article about lookalikes which I initially clicked on because “Charles Kennedy” looks nothing like Charles Kennedy. Imagine my surprise when I read the piece to discover that “Charles” and the lookalike agency FREELY A[…]

It strikes me that my demographic is not what is traditionally thought of as a floating voter. Floating voters are of course so named because most parties would like to subject them to a ducking stool test where the only RIGHT answer is to vote for U[…]

yesterday was the final day of the christian marclay show at the barbican, which is annoying cz i caught it w.an hour to spare and thus can only somewhat impotently tell you that VIDEO QUARTET is the best piece of video art i have EVER SEEN and if yo[…]

this morning the girl who by looks reminds me of rainy’s early-days ilxor friend maryann asked me where i’d been all these weeks
it seemed kinder not to tell her, so i just said “away”[…]

John Water’s new film tries so hard to offend that you cannot help be won over by its twee charms. Tracie Ullmann’s sexually repressed mother gets a bang around the head and becomes the twelth apostle of Ray-Ray, a kind of Jesus for sex a[…]

on sunday sistrah becky and i took dad down south and west, to the stiperstones, with its rocky outcrops, past the abandoned leadmine at snailbeach: he would lead student field trips out here fortnightly at least, while he was still teaching, though […]

The European standard it seems these days is to have two beers with the same name but of different strengths. We are not unused to this in the UK, pace Carlsberg and Carlsberg Export after all. Even Fosters made a brief foray into these murky waters[…]

And now I get it. This is low-key storytelling at its best, the weaving of anecdotes into a whole: into a life. You can only tell a life in stories if that life is not too mundane, but what Murray challenges himself to do is walk the tightrope of a v[…]

I’ve openly admired most everything Derren Brown has done, with the exception of the silly Russian Roulette show. There was a so-so counting trick on tonight’s show with the episode’s “guest celeb” Jo Whiley which i coul[…]