Jonathan Meades’ show last night on Stalin and Architecture was so annoying. It promised to be a welcome exposition on a often-derided subject that’s generally dismissed glibly in one fell swoop.
But that’s not what we got. It was[…]

We knew he shut down Radio Caroline but well will history judge him now we know he was key to stopping nationalisation of the breweries in the 1970s? Bloody left methodist fun hating tradition bah humbug.[…]

‘Be like Maradona – give up coke’[…]

Make mine a double
Dopplegangers have become confused in the public mind, it seems to me. In modern parlance, it seems to be much more ‘someone who looks like me’ rather than ‘my malevolent double’. That meaning still exists i[…]

I’m a deeply amateur fisherman; given that I don’t even eat fish, my fishing is more like the nastier blood sports in its complete lack of utility. I’ve spend 2 days fishing on Loch Awe over the August bank holiday for the last 3 ye[…]

It’s injury time between Heybridge Swifts and AFC Wimbledon and the wombles are 1-0 down. The keeper has the ball and the guy standing near the cameraman in this video captures the essence of football…[…]

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[…]

BBC News 24 Interviewer to David Attenborough in story about decline in numbers of mountain gorilla:
“So, what were they like to work with?”
They were actors in gorilla suits all along![…]

Please don’t do dis dis dis dis dis dis dis gol
* Apart from anything Sepp Blatter’s said.[…]

Danny Baker has voted, along with his daughter and, I presume, his partner.
An old woman wanted to check that her vote would be valid as she’d put a tick, not a cross. I assured her that as long as it was clear who she’d voted for, it&#82[…]