While proper management nerds are waiting for the knock-down drag-out battle between Championship Manager 5 and the all-new Football Manager, I have been waiting for tomorrow’s release of LMA Manager 2005, their idiot-proof console cousin. I li[…]

Reports on Band Aid III are neglecting to ask the one crucial question about the new record – viz. who gets to sing THAT LINE? After high-level FT editorial discussion we’re of the opinion that there is only one man with the pipes for it.[…]

…and so would you if you’d seen the midweeks. Manics at #1 again with surely their most overwrought, wafflesome, draggy song ever. I honestly thought we’d seen the last of them as a commercial force.
Luckily the despair is lifted by[…]

My Lonely War
…against the forces of minimalism. Not yer art-world minimalism, or even (so much) your high-end design minimalism, but corporate minimalism, middlebrow minimalism, 80s-hangover “MORE WHITE SPACE PLEASE!” Neville Brody[…]

POP FACTOR: 762 CONTROVERSY RATING: 205
An apology: work has been very, very busy lately. Something had to give, and that something was the Square Table. Hopefully it is now, in the immortal words of Barlow,G. “back for good”.
Touch-don[…]

Gasp! [choke!] It’s… The First Ever ILC Greatest Comics Poll for your joining-in pleasure.[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
16. Imprisonment
The author of this piece wishes to remain anonymous.
I was brought up to believe that prisons were for bad people and so if I kept my nose clean, I’d never end up there. I needed no discour[…]

Pedant’s Corner: why is it always raw energy? What’s wrong with the cooked kind?[…]

The worst things you can hear on UK radio
by A.N.Office Worker.
5. Banter betwixt Colin and Edith on 1FM: Whenever one of Colin and Edith gets the week off the standard of their show skyrockets – together they form a nightmarish gestalt chemist[…]

Three Beatles Songs
Or perhaps that should be, ‘three Beatlesploitation songs’. When the Beatles wave broke on America, how could the existing pop – girl and boy groups with their bouncy, witty, politely nuanced love songs – d[…]