The last item (bar a bonus insert) in this series was on European comics. Two of the all-time great children’s creators could have been covered there. It’s worth noting that comics have been a medium aimed overwhelmingly at children, espe[…]

Oh its all Abba all the time round here these days. What with Popular knee deep in the 1970’s. Well Winner Takes It All is 1980’s Abba, and a significantly more jaded, wistful Abba it is too. So rather than talk to much about the track it[…]

The final sampled whistle has been blown and the record crowd is streaming out of the stadium digesting this extraordinary result: Switzerland have won Europop 2008. The game was an incident packed one, thanks in part to 15 extra Italian votes floodi[…]

Last years big summer smash (and meterological phenomenon) had in its arsenal a particular vocal tick. Rihanna’s Ella-Ella plagued us like the rain she was cowering from. And this year it seems that Flo Rida is stealing this schtick wholesale, […]