Simon Barnes in The Times: WHEN SPORT mirrors the real world, it frequently does so in a bizarre and distorted fashion. How else would you g...

Given that following England's adventures in the World Cup is currently my (and the nation's) chief preoccupation, TofE has been str...

On having one’s reading interrupted by the insect-like noise of teenagers riding mopeds up and down the street outside Now reading The Broth...

Cold Calling Of all the world’s appalling callings, Sales cold calling’s worst of all. All the mornings of verbal maulings, From those you’r...

In response to Peter’s challenge, I shall embark on my most ambitious piece of patriotic nonsense yet: a defence – nay, a celebration ­– of...

Trinidad dig in for dream draw By Oliver Kay Trinidad & Tobago 0 Sweden 0 WHATEVER HE HAS ACHIEVED AS A footballer, Dwight Yorke has alw...

Local newsflash today: Police have closed Bristol's central Broadmead area following the discovery of a suspected wartime bomb. Officers...

From Magnus Linklater’s article 7/7: the heroism and the humour , in The Times today: NONE OF US knows how we will respond to extreme danger...

Battle of the chess grandmasters as leading England player 'attacks' rival over dancefloor move FOR one British grandmaster, his riv...

…is what writing about music is like, according to Elvis Costello. And he’s right, but suffice it to say that from the first note Nicola Ben...

Michael Gove in The Times : Whenever a Brit takes on the world in some international contest or other, our duty appears clear. Cheer on the ...

For those who didn’t realise that Monty Python was a documentary... Dozens hurt in cheese roll race A teenager who knocked himself out whil...

Here are three introductory paragraphs to reports of the current Bush/Blair summit: From the Independent : Bush and Blair admit that Iraq pr...

Communiqué received from Gloucestershire CCC this morning: Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and The King's School regret to announce ...

From Ananova : School trip arrested A teacher who took his class on a school trip to a historic cathedral was arrested for giving unlicenced...

One of the joys of patronising the Arnolfini, Bristol’s contemporary arts centre, is that I get some glorious emails advertising new exhibit...