... A Google Alert does, apparently . Taking the effort out of ego-googling, an Alert can act as a Spider Sense for the thin-skinned, tingli...

... in the Great Blog Wars 2003-2009, as explained to angry Roman Catholic vet, Waldo .

…is this exchange in Comment is Free , in which posh eco-warrior (and fabulously bad poet award-winning poet, orang utan rehabilitator, ...

Worm casts about for Eden here . Poor humans: the fleeting glimpse, caught but rarely between hope and nostalgia, find the river, Ratty and ...

Having recently watched Gran Torino and The Wire , I was struck by the following observation: race is quite a big issue in America . I appr...

There’s been a (slightly silly) debate on the sports pages of The Times about whether the now-retiring Freddie Flintoff counts as a “great” ...

So we won the Ashes back . Hurrah! Terrific to win it of course, and a great series, but this was nothing like 2005. The 2005 Ashes was a co...

Which sports commentators are the best? is a question I often ponder while pegging out the laundry, or sterilising bottles. The radio comme...

Think of England wishes the Rifftrax team the best of luck with tonight’s epic Live Riff event, showing at what they insist on calling ‘mov...

The world has shrunk to a series of babysecretions and attempts to detect sleeping patterns in apparent randomness. The Middle and Morning W...

Talking of Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson , it’s difficult – foolish even – to pick a favourite passage (like Thornton’s Continentals or t...

Reports of this blog's death are greatly exaggerated. I've had some sleep and will be roaring back into action soon. In the meantime...

...said David below. I refute it thus, but posting will most certainly be light for a few millennia/days (I can't tell the difference an...

Arriving fashionably late and on a date even I can't forget - 07/08/09 (at 9.33pm to be exact) - is one Charlotte Emily Nixon, aka Brit ...

Peter is right , now is not the time for morbidity and noseybonkery. Today we leave the house as a duo, to return as a trio. Here's some...

Mr Noseybonk Returns (A duet) Creeping under bridges, peeping through the drains, Noseybonk goes where no-one else can! So always mind the ...