if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

Utrecht is famous for a half-finished Cathedral and a very old university. Nobel prize-winner Gerard t'Hooft works there. It also has a ...

On my way into work yesterday I passed through the Covent Garden Paizza. And saw, well, this... It was the pre-start show for the G...

I have to tiptoe round the 80's. There was so much good music, a lot of which can be dated to within a couple of months. Who now remembe...

Somewhere in the late 1960's, a young man is leaning out of his bedroom window. He's been reading, perhaps Dostoyevsky or Robert Hei...

This blog has now been going for two years, mostly three entries a week. According to Google Stats, since July 2010, when Stats became avail...

Nicholas Nassem Taleb, author of The Black Swan , does not read newspapers. Rightly he considers that most of them are full of junk press re...

There's a thing called churnalism, and even a website that lets you see if a story is just churned , that consists of re-cyclying press ...