So Manchester United are top of the Premiership eh? Its early doors I know, but it is impressive considering that currently several of their top players are also moonlighting as characters in the latest edition of DC Comics Martian Manhunter.
How to[…]

…except why he’s called Harry when his given name is David, in this Ask The Expert column from last week’s grauniad. The second question in particular will be of interest to our viewers i think.[…]

Premise Number 1: The Ashes as fought between England and Australia is a great trophy precisely due to its lack of monetary value and excess of symbolic value. (more…)[…]

I’ve always been a bit of a letter writer and have had periods of being a bit of a radio phone-in caller (=when I wasn’t getting any attention from girls at school), so I’m rather pleased to have had a letter published in the London[…]

According to the latest issue of Marketing, Budweiser UK are ‘very pleased’ with their “You do the football, we do the beer” campaign, which has caused a record sales month for the generally declining brand. This will horri[…]

my entry:
An Humbler Heaven: the Beginnings of Hope, William Rees-Mogg, Collins paperbacks, 1977 — the blurb begins “The evidence for the existence of God is like the pre-photographic evidence for the existence of Everest”, so the f[…]

(i already mentioned this in the goblin comments somewhere, except i couldn’t recall its NAME)
i. it is called “Drake!”
ii. it comes in a long thin box, and the “board” is a rolled up parchment MAP! (drawback: it has be[…]

The other night I found myself on a work jolly to All Star Lanes, one of two mini bowling alleys to have cropped up in Soho. All-Star Lanes offers four lanes, a spacious bar, a rather less spacious restaurant, an extensive cocktail menu, Americana on[…]

So while Italian clubs get their punishment reduced for the heinous crime of match fixing, the BBC treat something which is clearly as suspicious with the lightest of comic touches. An entire village cricket team get out for ten ducks and a man stra[…]

I think we’re all agreed by now that the DS is GRATE, are we not? Despite all fears of RSI, styluses going missing all over the shop (*fingers xed) and a redundant second screen – it’s worked! We love it! We love washing the Nintend[…]