It’s my Bloggiversary and a Video for Halloween
It’s Halloween tomorrow – oooh, spooky – so here’s a video that’s been passed round Facebook and Twitter today. It’s actually a public information film, but is probably scarier than most full-length, hack-n-slash, flesh eating zombie flicks. Watching it again, I’m thinking the haircuts and clothes are even scarier t

Journalists who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
Unless you live in a cave, you can’t have failed to miss the outrage surrounding Jan Moir’s pernicious Daily Mail ‘article’ about the death of Stephen Gately*. I’m not going to post a rebuttal this late in the day – that’s already been done to

From the Guardian and Manet, to drunken freshers and spooky kids
Thought it was time I popped in for one of my irregular visits to this blog before I start to receive emails asking if I’ve been abducted by aliens. I was going to bring you a well thought out piece about the

Is it always illegal to slap politicians with fish?
Feeling a bit ranty today, so apologies in advance to anyone who was hoping for something light and fluffy. I had a choice between posting here, or heading to Manchester, finding David Cameron and slapping him around with a wet haddock – I have a feeling he has ‘people’ to stop that kind of thing happening, so … The

Whatever Will They Type Next
I’ve been promising to write another weird search terms post for a while, but i