The Hare And Tortoise, Brunswick Centre, WC1.
Where do you go for comfort food? That quick pick-me-up, that stuff your face feeling. A meal that you know will always be of the same quality and will always fill you up and make you feel better afterwar[…]

Adverts ‘fat’ joke ruled ‘funny’, not offensive, according to the Advertising Standards Authority.
Which is more than can be said about Jamie Theakston’s presenting on The Games which scores doubly bad on fatuousness (is[…]

Look! It’s Mercury Music Prize winner Dizzee Rascal picking his nose!!! You’d think he’d get a little man to do that kind of thing for him now, wouldn’t you? Then again, for all his superstardom he’s still quite a little[…]

There is an essential dilemma when reviewing popularisations of specialist subjects. If I know enough about X to determine whether this introduction to X covers the ground throughly and accurately, without omission or distortion or misrepresentation,[…]

Whitechapel has featured in a surprisingly high number of my posts to the Publog over the years. And here I am again to offer evidence as a rapid rebuttal to Pete’s mental idea that tellies in pubs should be for sport only. Get yourself down to[…]

FAST FOOD ROCKERS – “Say Cheese (Smile Please)” A quick warning entry to alert you to the year’s least necessary release – Fast Food Rockers follow-up single. Several focus group participants muttered darkly that FFR w[…]

The Flamingo, The Pushme-Pullyu and the Mao – all pieces in variant chess according to this site. I’m fond of house rules and rule variants in theory but they often seem rather forced: most games have players for whom knowing and tweaking[…]

The Sun And 13 Cantons is not a bad pub, in as much as it is a pub at all. Yes it is overpriced, yes its wipe down clean tables are aspiring to bardom: but they are catering for a media kind of market who like that kind of thing. I am not sure though[…]

Pet Shop Boys Track By Track: a remarkable labour of love PSB fan-site, essentially one of those Revolution In The Head-style career archaeologies, except online and free-of-charge. The song information is interesting, though my favourite bit of the […]

HERE’S WHAT I HATE #1: CABBAGE!! Two minor celebrations running I have had to pick my way delicately through an otherwise excellent meal – once at Stockpots in Old Compton Street (Fried Liver and Onions) and once at the Korean restaurant […]