Do you know what I hate? Apart from injustice, horribleness and all of that stuff that FT does not have a blog on which we can rant about it. I hate movies which are solely designed to do one thing not actually doing them. Possibly the nadir of this […]

and thus, inevitably, a column in which mark steel gamely ploughs his way through a crit of THIS KIND OF THING (viz: Live8 in particular, charity protest in general). Fraid you have to subscribe for the complete “764 words approx” but her[…]

…or whether it’s p!ssing down, at least glasto weather watch give us something more to read as the excitement increases :)[…]

i dreamt i wz at glasto!!
we all (inc. me tom and al ewing) wandered disconsolately round this vast huge darkened building, looking for some idea of who might be playing where – it was dank, the floor was ordinary outside-style earth, in humm[…]

Music “helps cut crime” sez a Baroness. The reason why there is not much crime at Glasto is surely nothing to do with the enormous fence that keeps the crims out. I am suspicious of the soothing powers of music – trudging across the[…]

Okay, okay – we will get on to proper science somewhere along the line, not just stuff I read on the side of a bus. But really. Colgate “Oxygen”! I think pseudo-science in cosmetic adverts have reached such a point that Colgate need[…]