Although 2011 has been a quiet year for Think of England in terms of posts - The Dabbler inevitably takes up the majority of my blogging tim...

We have doubled our number of daughters, to two. Elizabeth Orla, arrived Saturday at 11.55am. 7lb 9. Spit of her sister. All well, if sleepl...

...I'd have them all shot.

I list my complaints about Thom Yorke and talk about Radiohead's album The Bends here.

I grill Bryan Appleyard over at The Dabbler about his new book and also why he keeps stopping and starting blogging.

My review of The Brain is Wider Than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard is up at The Dabbler.

Another airing for my queasy Ilfracombe prose-poem at the Big D.

Entertaining the troops over at the Dabbler, with Gracie Fields, Glenn Miller, George Butterworth and Elvis singing gospel.

I have become addicted to the nightly financial doom-fest that is Newsnight. This is eating into important reading and sleeping time and als...

Could anything be more revealing of the true nature of the Great European Project than the Markozy reaction to Papandreou, who has broken th...

Over at The Dabbler I commit heresy by criticising David Attenborough - or specifically, his neo-Malthusian theory of human population.

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...