FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
16. Imprisonment
The author of this piece wishes to remain anonymous.
I was brought up to believe that prisons were for bad people and so if I kept my nose clean, I’d never end up there. I needed no discour[…]

Pedant’s Corner: why is it always raw energy? What’s wrong with the cooked kind?[…]

World Match Play goes to Els for record sixth win
Congrats to Ernie Els on his record-breaking win in the World Match Play this afternoon. Els is a great golfer who is as affable as he is talented. I’m with Seve when he reckons “there&#[…]

I have 34 of these box sets now, so I thought I’d offer some guidance to anyone thinking they look tempting (especially at the £7 prices on offer at HMV and Fopp, for instance) but unsure where to dip their toe in. Pretty much all of the […]

LATE NIGHT HATE
Reading about Johnny Vaughan’s morning escapades made me think about the radio horrors I experience at night driving home from work, namely ‘Late Night Love’. Now most ‘local’ radio stations aren’t […]

Watching CSI:Miami is akin to watching an ant crawl down the pavement on a supermegadoubleplusgood zoom lens from the 60th floor of a sky scraper for 20 years, then playing back the film of the event in reverse at 1000000000x the original speed and […]

Capital offence I like Johnny Vaughan. There, I said it. His 2001 sitcom ‘Orrible was hilarious and his BBC3 chat show, Johnny Vaughan Tonight, was excellent. No, really.
But, even amongst the diminishing numbers of Vaughan apologists out there[…]

The worst things you can hear on UK radio
by A.N.Office Worker.
5. Banter betwixt Colin and Edith on 1FM: Whenever one of Colin and Edith gets the week off the standard of their show skyrockets – together they form a nightmarish gestalt chemist[…]

Party Fears 22
1. No-one will come.
2. In my fear about no-one coming I’ve invited too many people. Now too many people will come.
3. They’ll get mugged on the way and it will be my fault.
4. In my fear about too many people coming I have[…]

Three Beatles Songs
Or perhaps that should be, ‘three Beatlesploitation songs’. When the Beatles wave broke on America, how could the existing pop – girl and boy groups with their bouncy, witty, politely nuanced love songs – d[…]