Popping over to Nick Cohen’s place I notice two things. First, that he’s had a redesign (a significant improvement, too). Second, that in t...

Rod Lidl writes a lot of sloppy, pointlessly provocative tosh (as Nick Cohen knows, it's not easy to keep generating controversial angle...

Via Nige I discover this riveting BBC article about cardboard boxes, which includes perhaps the greatest introductory paragraph ever writt...

Has anyone yet managed to see a single story in any paper or media outlet about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that doesn't...

Yesterday evening, after a long day’s roaming, I was relaxing with a pint in the Bonaparte bar at Bristol Temple Meads rail station when in ...

According to Baltic legend, when the Arctic storm wind blows down from the mountains across the tundra it heralds the arrival of the Great W...

I note that the 32-year old man arrested in connection with the murder of Jo Yeates hasn't been named. Rightly so, but how do the rules ...

...about the plummeting standards of journalism on the BBC News website. One element of my day job (now only an occasional element) is to fi...

In the Sunday Times mag yesterday ( here, but paywalled ) ungrateful child Lynn Barber laid gleefully into her late parents yet again. I par...

The Sunday Times mag this week carried a lengthy article by feminist academic Camille Paglia about Lady Gaga and 'the death of sex' ...

Bloody hell, the Guardian’s editors really will let anyone loose on Comment is Free, won’t they? The long-term problem I suppose will be the...

What is there to protest about these days? This is an interesting piece on the 'Democracy Village’ protesters in Parliament Square. Tas...

On the subject of the Times paywall, I’ve been asking myself: why do I buy newspapers? In fact now I only regularly buy the Sunday Times, wh...

In addition to having a magnificent proboscis, Marina Hyde is the closest thing that British hackery has to a Queen of Snark. Read her here ...

Yes it was a terrible blunder but surely this headline in the Belfast Telegraph is taking it too far into the realms of conspiracy? Update-...

Psychotherapy was arguably the most important innovation of the 20th century. Alain de Botton ( reviewing Couch Fiction by Philippa Perry)...

I don't have much to say about the all-round unpleasantness of the Fergie sting/entrapment, but I did wonder, following the similar snar...

It seems that some light can be shed on the Tiger Woods fiasco by an interview he gave to GQ back in 1997. An article by Charles P Pierce p...