The book I’m reading about the 60s covers the beginning of Dr Who in some Carmodic detail (it’s a symbol for erm yeah WHITE HEAT OF TECHNO), and on Friday night I watched the first ep of the Eccleston series again, so time for a DR WHO PO[…]

apawboy has been ventin his ire recently at the collapse into total useless blah of the words “icon” and “iconic” (see all over his blog for absurd examples): while time-killin in soho on tue afternoon, i gazed for a while int[…]

– OMG it’s Murray Lachlan Young
– how the FUCK has he got a full-length story on BBC News?
– WTF he is married to ZOE???
– “Tea With The Taleban”, yes that sounds like him all right
– god, weren’t[…]

BBC Talking Point, long your #1 destination for knee-jerking and button-pushing, has recently redesigned and now has a ‘recommendations’ system on replies, whereby you can click on “most recommended” and see the viewer comment[…]

Fawlty England fans risk jail – on the front page of Ananova this story was trailed as “England football fans could be jailed if they do the Basil Fawlty goosestep during the World Cup Finals in Germany” – erm, yes, B.F. not a[…]

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[…]