Modern life is rubbish, says some bloke who thinks the world is becoming too left-brained, which is to say: “an increasingly mechanistic, fr...

That some readers didn't notice that the post below was a spoof of music journalism (and a rather heavily-hammered point re the previous...

The fractious economic and political climate of the late 1970s saw a flowering of musical creativity, as a generation of British youths, ene...

Occasionally I wonder if I would have enjoyed being a music journalist. I have two of the necessary qualifications: I enjoy a wide range of ...

Mark – the second of my objectionable employers – had a repertoire of objectionable catchphrases. An idiosyncratic one was "the guts a...

Terrific lot of fuss about Thierry Henry’s handball, wasn’t there? The interesting thing for me was the fact that he was actually able to ha...

I have had two objectionable employers. The first was Barry, who supervised the Devon amusement arcade in which I worked for three summers t...

A comment on Ragbag by Peter B reminds me that the 'North, after promising to judge our crunchy eschatological competition and send the...

This expensive-looking video is Cornerstone , the latest single from the increasingly-impressive Arctic Monkeys. A commendable little pop s...

Back in the There is too much internet post, Martpol pointed us to the Wikipedia list of statistically superlative countries . Brace yourse...

BBC2 had a programme the other night tracking the trends in mass-market art, from Vladimir Tretchikoff through the cheeky Tennis Girl to tod...

Over here I attempted to explain to the ever-polite Rus (and, linking, I find he's still going strong) that he didn’t understand specia...

Tell me, is there anything more satisfying in this life than producing, from a wind-troubled infant, a resounding burp? Tell me something el...

I was a competent but unmemorable drummer . My name is by the bye (it’s Ian). I drummed, competently but unmemorably, for many of the leadin...

Muggsy Spanier was, as we know, the cornet player’s cornet player . We also know that he was the subject of a hugely controversial concept t...

Does anyone else feel they’re being diddled out of their rightful allocation of Time? I refer, of course, to rubbish television programmes. ...