From Never Had It So Good by Dominic Sandbrook:
“The writer Peter Vansittart recalled an appearance by [Colin] Wilson at the ICA, where he announced: ‘Man’s enemies are herd-values, triviality, the weight of mental inertia, stale id[…]

Peter Sarsgaard and Stellan Skarsgård are not related.
I know, it makes it really difficult to make glib comparisons (where none are appropriate) between their acting. And watching Jarhead at the weekend I realised just how many Peter Sarsgaard movi[…]

I don’t know what the response rate is to Bodyform’s latest hard hitting billboard campaign. “1 IN 5 WOMEN ARE LET DOWN EVERY MONTH BY THEIR SANITARY PROTECTION”. It seems like a rallying call nevertheless, and one which may m[…]

In a league table for under fifteen-year-old incidences of violence, English girls come fifth in the world and Scottish sixth. This assumes they did best in the quarter finals. Eastern Europe seems to lead the way with Hungary, Estonia and Lithuania […]

Winterbottom’s Cock And Bull Story is, as you would expect from the director of Nine Songs, happily explicit when it comes to both bulls and cocks. And whilst the bulls come into it near the end the cocks are liberally peppered in the film. The[…]

You will need: Five potatoes (floury; medium size — one can be small!) Young-leaf spinach (half a salad bag) One ripe avocado Three small onions Chicken or veg stock cube (actually I used matigold swiss vegetable bouillon powder) Chilli Oil But[…]

oh you humans, confusing SPECIES-WAR INVASION SCOUTS for something cute and quirky — so complacent, so puny[…]

“oh oh i’m sorry i have not delivered my review as promised [= have missed THIRD re-negotiated deadline], the text disappeared from my computer somehow but IT is workin to recover it” = THE DOG ATE MY HOMEWORK[…]

And clearly using this hotline to God for good purpose, Robert Kirkman demands that the Transporter 3 be made.
Shows an admirable judge of priorities.[…]

I have a rule, not often tested, where I won’t go to two restaurants in one day. It is mainly a rule based on financial prudence, but yesterday when I broke the rule other things became apparent. You eat out twice in one day it stops being spec[…]