Film   If you've been wondering why wind has been whistling through this old place lately it's because all of the excitement has bee...

Film   Apart from the odd duff moment (hesaidit!.gif), this past season of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has been a marked impro...

Prose   Loose Ends is the current inhabitant of the parish circular in which, as the title suggests, one of my favourite Doctor Who writers...

Books    After completing my visit to the Sir John Soane's Museum , I headed to the British Library to see which of their First Folios i...

Books   At about this time last week, I was sat in a small, atmospheric library in a Georgian town house with a Shakespeare First Folio on t...

Music   Hope you're all enjoying Glastonbury this weekend, even from your armchair.  After a similar posts proved popular in the last co...

Books    Since there's now a checklist and everything , I've been trying to decide what to call the endeavour of trying to see all o...

Politics   The PDF version of the SNP manifesto still has crop marks around the edge which suggests this is exactly the same file which was...

Politics   Back in when I did this exercise in 2015, I covered UKIP  and have been considering whether to bother with their latest iteration...

Politics    As you can see the cover of the Labour manifesto dispenses with the title of the document, most people on the receiving end will...

Politics   Busy morning so let's get to it.  As with all the parties, Plaid Cymru's website is a bit of a mess in terms of navigatio...