The shortlist is a bit disheartening. Simple as that. It makes you wonder if the judges really tried with the longlist or actually just went for the names they knew. The presence of the Ishiguro suggests so (it is a terrible book). Of course if we kn[…]

This is revisionism. Tiswas custard* pies were totally non-diary products (good for the allergic amongst us). They were rubbish 1970s shaving foam, without any balms, aloe, pro-vitamin Cell Block H or dry weave top sheets.
And if you don’t bel[…]

The premise behind the film The Aristocrats is that about 100 comedians all tell the same joke. It is not a very good joke. However it is a joke where the middle section is basically just a long scatalogical trawl through whatever the teller thinks w[…]

I don’t mean false memory syndrome as in the therapy definition. A dangerous buzzword: it allows the defense that childhood memories of abuse have been implanted by “predatory” psychologists. Could this happen? Well certainly, and w[…]

Not THIS custard pie madness, obv. Seeing Jeremy Clarkson getting humiliated in public is clearly on of the finer things in life. Nevertheless the sad thing is that custard pies are not what they were. In as much as once upon a time they were more th[…]

Don’t Dumb Me Down pleads Ben Goldacre, decrying reporting of science stories, railing against straw humanities graduates misunderstanding and misreporting science stories
and
Today’s front page main story which seems to show that humanit[…]

in 1823 william webb-ellis “with a fine disregard for the rules of foopball” picked up the ball and ran and invented rugby blah blah zzz
cricket was evolved out of rounders by an evil RPG-infested think-tank (interestingly but unsurprisi[…]

Difficult times for English football. As television revenues decline, players’ wages don’t. These same players, pampered and arrogant, inhabit the gossip pages of the newspapers more often than the sports pages. The public, irked by the p[…]

it has been proposed by a sarcastic workmate that my recent ear problems were imposed on me by the gods for the CRÅZY HÜBRIS of my FROGLOVE
i say a bing-bing pAH!![…]

For those of you who missed it last week: It’s The End Of Life As We Know It. But wait, great news for all our readers, with the abolition of the regular science supplement, the Guardian’s commitment to science actually improves. How, you[…]