Over at The Dabbler I peer at some bespectacled popstars , including Buddy Holly (of course), Elvis Costello, Graham Coxon, plus a nasty sur...

There are many highly comical elements of the Occupy London/St Paul’s debacle – the Trustafarian queues for Starbucks, the empty tents, the ...

I put Second Coming into Record Rehab here.

I address this and other questions about political satire in my review of The Comic Strip presents... The Hunt for Tony Blair .

I was sorry to see Wales lose to France - not least because victory would have made my pal and Dabbler co-editor Gaw happy - but I confess I...

Over here I wonder what the music of Germany and Greece can tell us about their current relationship, locked in a loveless economic embrace...

It surely tells you all you need to know about the prurient interest of the meedja in the Meredith Kercher murder case that it is nigh impos...

Over at the Dabbler - Flashman makes some modest remarks concerning the concept of American exceptionalism.

Those who've been following the Johann Hari farce (including Nick Cohen, whose wikipedia entry was maliciously tampered with by Hari usi...

At the Dabbler I review the new film of Tinker Tailor Solider Spy . I also drink alcohol at the cinema.

At the Dabbler I review episode 1 of series 2 of Downton Abbey (ITV1, Sunday).

Over at The Dabbler I provide a short and, I think, rather poignant history of those typographical curioisities, ambigrams .

A few weeks ago I found myself clamped in the teeth of a North Sea gale, on a bitter July Tuesday, trying to make a sandcastle from the brow...

Poddington's Thoughts continue apace, despite my having deleted three of his posts for being racist drivel. Not viciously racist, just ...

...would have been a good name for my music post In every dream home a heartache at The Dabbler, but it's too late now. L'esprit d...

My infamous Why the Scottish Hate the English post really is the gift that keeps on giving, in terms of random comments. I sometimes delete ...