Asdal turned up trumps for the basics, such as crumpets, Dungeness crab and eggs which contain egg , but Wild Swans by Jung Chang, foot spa...

Last night as I pushed my trolley round Asda (here pronounced, with the bizarre Bristol terminal ‘L’ , as ‘Asdal’), keeping one eye on the s...

I bring glad tidings! You may recall that last October I suggested that Wikipedia’s List of Official State Crustaceans might mark the point...

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...

From The Sunday Times review of Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Children don’t celebrate their own birthdays,...

To watch Tiger Woods’s excruciating, stage-managed press conference – in which he professed gratitude for having been caught at it because t...

The incorrigibly combative Sean correctly observes that Zen is not necessarily antithetical to bloody violence. One need only read Frank Key...

Like all right-minded people and some cranks I like to hike up into the hills of a lunchtime with a cupcake and a copy of the Pelican editio...

Nige tells of some extraordinary finds in an Oxfam bookshop, including a book about certified morons. But here's one that's been bu...

Bloody hell, have you seen Coraline , the animated ‘family’ film? Last night Mrs B and I sat quivering in terror behind our 3-D glasses; it ...

The Yard calls John Gray a ‘great sceptic’ and Jason Cowley in The Observer describes Gray as “Britain's most sceptical thinker”. Nei...

These are worrying times for John Portsmouth Football Club Westwood. Concerned readers have been emailing me to ask about the possible conse...

A visitor from the University of Surrey* has landed on this profound post about the philosophical mystery that is Free Will, by googling the...

Dispiriting to read the apologists for Mary Beard on her blog . Her article was offensive because she had the arrogance to trot out a blasé...

Goddammit I can't stop singing Incey-Wincey Goat-Boy, creature of two realms. Just so darn catchy...

Wobbling precariously on my crutches after a family dinner in a local restaurant, I hailed the first cab in the rank. He drove up, glanced a...