Good men die like dogs

I’ve been tidying today, and came across a photocopy of something someone sent me just after I left the TV …

Swimming against the stream

One of the reasons I started this blog was because I kept coming across scraps of paper with quotes I’d …

From ‘pub’ to ‘pisshouse’

One of the finest apologies ever seen, from the British Medical Journal, is spotted by the Guardian’s diary: “During the …

Patience is a virtue

I visited the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum, where this stunning photograph by Paul …

Only in America

Maybe with a mind to today’s inauguration, and the fifty year journey it represents for civil rights, I’ve been listening …

Those Bush years

The Guardian has a little supplement today in which various writers reflect on the main characters and themes of the …

Remembering Lowell George

I had a conversation with a friend over the weekend about the Little Feat singer and slide guitarist Lowell George, …

Pigs – in there

A shocking article today on the conditions in which pigs are reared in most of Western Europe, where most of …

Sentimentality and realism

A fabulous quote from the writer Brigid Brophy, used in an article on the global food system by Sharon Astyk …

Aberystwyth noir

The notion of Raymond Chandler’s mean Los Angeles streets being translated to Aberystwyth seems far-fetched, but Malcolm Pryce’s Aberystwyth is …