Last year, no film annoyed me more than All The Kings Men, deathly dull remake of the Robert Penn Warren book, which had already been filmed serviceably. What was wrong with it was an absence of life, and a collection of heritage performances (Sean P[…]

Every now and then I like to look at the collected quotes of British football as punted on the BBC website to gauge the state of the game. After all football managers are interviewed incessantly, and as a large group of people there are always a few […]

The pie edition of FT and their loverly lollards was notable for having more research per square inch for any episode. Which was a touch infuriating when I couldn’t get it out and instead fell back on fallacious articles about there being &#822[…]

The human being isn’t very good at comprehending quantity (its why there are people with special jobs to survey them). That‘s not just the drunk stating he’s had twenty pints instead of four, or even the same drunk estimating the number of inch[…]

” Popworld is a TV show. Popworld is a radio show. Popworld is a magazine. But who knew Popworld was also a theme bar? Actually, Popworld the bar in Liverpool (my only experience of its existence) used to be a Flares, and seems to have taken o[…]

The Glastonbury Festival has come under attack by an unlikely source this morning, just before the 1,400,000 tickets go on sale. The Bishop of Bath and Wells, whose diocese contains the Parish of Glastonbury has gone on an unprecedented attack at wha[…]

What a bunch of saps we are. But then if you ask fifteen people who have been on a pub crawl for six hours what is the thing that underpins the universe, well a slurred Love is not the unexpected response. Anyway, someone jumped the gun, because as w[…]

What is the Periodic Table of FreakyTrigger? The best way to describe it is to firstly say what it is not, and then to say how it was made. If it all makes sense after that, then this truly is a project that you might get something out of. Here it is[…]

Its is twenty five years of the Sony Radio awards. Do Sony even make radios anymore? Anyway as an occasional avid listener to radio, I always keep a wary eye on the machinations of this awards bash. It is an odd industry bash, one which provides enou[…]

The film Sleeping Dogs (intelligently but less catchily titled Stay in the US, also known as the equally clever and Sleeping Dogs Lie) has one of the best opening lines I can remember hearing in the cinema. Now opening lines are hard to get right, an[…]