The Whole Goddam Mutha's Gonna Blow

“Myth,” the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss wrote, “is language.” Insofar as that language develops exponentially over time, so do...

The best of times, the worst of times Has a movie ever consigned so many catchphrases to posterity? ‘We’ve gone on holiday by mistake! Are y...

Amazing Amélie Pre-Iraq II, Time magazine ran a cover story rationalizing the ‘freedom fries’ line - WHY FRANCE IS DIFFERENT. Interestingly,...

Bad day at the office? Thank your luckies you’re not CC Baxter, Jack Lemmon’s resentfully downtrodden clerk in an NYC corporation, who has b...

Much ink and more self-righteousness has been spilled about the possible desecration of the one-minute silence to honour the fallen of Manch...

Sports Book of the Year Silent Revolutions – Writings on Cricket History Gideon Haigh Don’t like cricket? Don’t get it? Don’t go away. Joey ...

Pat Metheny's astonishing slowie of that name is not a love song - or not a conventional one. From the 1985 ECM album First Circle, its ...

Tom's back. So am I. Except he's bigger than I am.

Yes, folks, I'm back. To the 27.5 peeps in the world that tuned in to TWGMGB then, here's some more web Horlicks for ya. Watch this ...

It has been the summer of the public mum and dad. First Gerry and Kate McCann and then Melanie and Stephen Jones, as if not already under in...

Amongst the swarm of minor pieces of information that slipped out of the press wires on Thursday there was a small snap, around about 4.55 i...

BLOGGER'S NOTE: For connoisseurs of stupidity, visit the responses to this Celtic nationalists should invest in their heritage instead o...

Sorry for lack of posts. This is due to life treating me like a slurry-pit. As Norm Petersen put it, replying to the question 'how's...

JONATHAN MEADES: ABROAD AGAIN BBC2, 16.5.07 Television is not art. It is craft. Or is it? Sometimes one is tempted otherwise. Jonathan Meade...

RICK STEIN IN DU MAURIER COUNTRY BBC2, 12.5.07 It was Daphne Du Maurier night on BBC2. Hey, here’s a good one. Let’s get a celebrity from Co...

Scriabin 2 BBC SO/Sinaisky* It is dizzying to realise that it is almost 15 years to the day since Radio 3 last broadcast a live (ish) perfor...

Lord Reith was a Presbyterian Scot, a Wee Free wallah, among whose folks the most timid involvement in sensual pleasures had you hellbound. ...

Secrets of the grotto Peter Hagmann raves about Franz Schreker's hot and heavy opera "Die Gezeichneten" in Salzburg. Is it a m...

In search of a distant sound A composer's opera finally makes its arrival in America By Jeremy Eichler, Boston Globe April 15, 2007 This...

Deborah Orr: A singular horror, a media frenzy and some disturbing facts about missing children It is shocking that four babies have gone mi...