By annual tradition, my rankings – best to worst – of the year’s UK number one hits, with initial thoughts – very initial, I’d heard only one of these before last week and it wasn’t Ariana. Again, I didn’t ad[…]

In which tale:
1 Did Kitty Kid masquerade as Ada Mason?
2 Was the Mephistophelian host fixed by a dummy?
3 Did a showing of Not a Sparrow coincide with the running of the St Leger?
4 Was the recognition that two cousins were named Magdala crucial […]

1 Whence the Diehards?
2 Which Park witnessed disasters costing 25 and 66 lives?
3 Where, after 150 years, do they continue “to play for the sake of playing”?
4 Where did the repeated administration of Antimony lead to a public execution on the G[…]

This list was inspired by Brad Nelson in another place, and their excellent idea of just smushing together the things which stood out in 2018 regardless of media or format or whatever else. In practice the list is distressingly limited in scope. It�[…]

(RUBRIC’n’RULEZ can be found in the first post)
1 To what See was Aramis appointed?
2 Who was credited with “style” by Calverley?
3 Who banished the three Fathers to Craggy Island?
4 Who was preferred to Dr Grantley for what position […]

Hello and happy new year! It is I, Cameron Mackintosh, the world’s most powerful and most 80s theatre producer. Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera, CATS – I’m kind of a big deal guys!!!!! 
Thanks Cam! On the principle that ev[…]