Likoma Island, Malawi
“Hey Mazungu!” a voice called, “I am Gift, and this is my brother, Advice.” I glanced at the younger boy who smiled shyly. Mazungu is a Swahili word meaning white man, although its literal translation is […]

FT !P!O!P!sclusive!
Last night, your NYLPM correspondent was happily drinking cocktails in a bar in London’s trendy London when who should walk in but BLUR. And when I say BLUR I mean real actual classic BLUR, with reformed COXON! All four or[…]

TEDDYBEARS STHLM – “Cobrastyle”
There’s a long thread on ILE at the moment about the demerits of iconic faces on T-Shirts, to wit Nico who is apparently on some new New Look gear with the ahistorical slogan “Chelsea Unde[…]

Why Boxing should be banned
The Manager of Amir Khan gave an interview this morning*; I was unsure whether I’d heard things correctly. Sadly I had.
The main thing is to ‘secure Amir’s financial security’. Maybe they should loo[…]

The Quirks of Travel
One of travel’s joys is a delight in trivia, those bizarre local myths or footnotes of history gathered along the way.
I’ve just returned from Italy and came back with a couple of great finds. I now have a photo of t[…]

NEWS FEED: Surely this is what Camp X-Ray is for
Obviously I have a soft spot of Cat Stevens, or Yusef Islam or , (actually is it not a touch suspicious how many names he has had, like he was on the run). He used to be a musician, realised how rubbis[…]

Trauma is told from the point of view of an unreliable narrator who is a bit mad so he does not even know how unreliable he is. It also contains hallucinations, non sequiteurs and events that did not happen in the story, outside of the story or indee[…]

Further to Pete’s comments on a less healthy way to “five a day” see below for a stall seen on Blackpool’s Central pier. Sorry for the shoddy phone-cam picture, but it was all we had to hand.

That list of choco-coated fruit […]

Stumbled across the new series (new being a strange word in this case) of The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy last night on Radio 4. Doing Life, The Universe And Everything.Comments later perhaps on an aging cast (esp Trillian who sounds more like J[…]

Stop eating your spinach — the future of hydro may depend on it
Spinach Could Power Better Solar Cells
They report a light-to-electrical efficiency of 12%, which in itself isn’t bad. I believe that’s not atypical even for “c[…]