I had resigned to going to Japan, despite David Sylvian. Can you really go around the world and not visit the land of the rising sun? I had already been to the House Of The Rising Sun as a girl and was partially responsible for its forced name change[…]

1: Its open til 1am Monday – Wednesday, 2am the rest of the week.
2: It does White Russians for £3.50. Most other cocktails are £4.00.
3: It has a free sequential jukebox.
4: They are adding two karaoke boxes to the venue as we speak.
5: The […]

At the risk of sounding like Julie Burchill, Football is a bit gay. Tom highlights the interesting references in the Runciman piece about this, and it really is a subject that doesn’t get much coverage**.
Slavoj Zizek once persuasively argued t[…]

Coming out of the previous argument on the efficacy of football managers, comes a nice little podcast from the University of Warwick on changes made in managerial practice. That is all dinky and possibly not as significant as Dr Sue Bridgewater think[…]

For some time I had heard rumour of Channel Four dipping their toes back into the Breakfast TV market. I had even been telling people about it happening without realising IT HAD ALREADY STARTED. And my general prediction about it was correct. Morning[…]