Samuel Smith’s lager range in new twist!
OK in the good old days, now cruelly tooken from us, you had:
AYINGERBRAU = honest yeoman of lagers, man in a box.
PRINZ = vaguely spivvy premium effort with a blue stein.
D PILS = ‘ultra-premium&#[…]

Also from Never Had It So Good by D.Sandbrook:
“When the budding promoter Andrew Loog Oldham wanted to impress the American record producer Phil Spector in the early 1960s he took him to lunch at the Angus Steak House in Soho.”[…]

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[…]

1. The geezer who made pikachu cheese shapes
(except they all look disgusting, and kind of not much like a pikachu, maybe if you put MARMITE on the brie to create his stripes!)[…]

Marvel’s 1985 photo-comic – ‘incredibly innovative’, costs 1xmillion dollars to make, etc. etc. – looks like screenshots from knock-off survival horror game. Oh dear.[…]

The book I’m reading about the 60s covers the beginning of Dr Who in some Carmodic detail (it’s a symbol for erm yeah WHITE HEAT OF TECHNO), and on Friday night I watched the first ep of the Eccleston series again, so time for a DR WHO PO[…]

– OMG it’s Murray Lachlan Young
– how the FUCK has he got a full-length story on BBC News?
– WTF he is married to ZOE???
– “Tea With The Taleban”, yes that sounds like him all right
– god, weren’t[…]

BBC Talking Point, long your #1 destination for knee-jerking and button-pushing, has recently redesigned and now has a ‘recommendations’ system on replies, whereby you can click on “most recommended” and see the viewer comment[…]

Fawlty England fans risk jail – on the front page of Ananova this story was trailed as “England football fans could be jailed if they do the Basil Fawlty goosestep during the World Cup Finals in Germany” – erm, yes, B.F. not a[…]

More on the LRB/Runciman/Mourinho debate!
1. What Runciman misses out is the connection – especially long-term – between discrete results in football. This may well be subject to other statistical laws – or maybe there are other sci[…]