Thank You -- Dido Finally then, as promised, Dido. I thought most of the criticism which greeted Dido's first album No Angel was ...

God Be With You Till We Meet Again – Ralph Vaughn Williams At the Liverpool Blue Coat, the then all-boys, mostly a grammar school, offic...

Food The case for Quorn . I'm still not convinced, partly because I love meat and also since it sounds exactly like the stuff Profess...

Web Friends Reunited redesigns . Now looks like every other boring website online. Owners ITV miss point (as usual) and now want to turn...

Books A cautionary tale for researchers and writers everywhere . What I don't understand is how the writer,Veronica Buckley, could ha...

The 'Internet' In September 1995, BBC Music Magazine published this article which helpfully introduces the internet to a readers...

Obituary Bye Humph. I can't imagine how I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue will work without you. Oddly though, George Melly manage...

Film Rather lovely if slightly tragic Vanity Fair article about Doris Day. I didn't know she'd married a wrongen: "In the...

By The Sea – Roosta In the late 90s I worked as a roadie for rock band called Roosta. Well, I used to carry the drums in for my friend ...

TV Well, that about wraps it up for what the Wikipedia gamefully describes as the UNIT dating controversy (controversy?!? It's ha...

Answer Machine Message (Baby Call Me Back) -- Britney Spears Despite every attempt to contrary I seem to know an awful lot about Britne...

Having spent the best part of a month mostly talking about music I genuinely do like, it seems only fair to inflict some utter rubbish on my...

Politics I've been reading the Daily Kos which should strike some of my readers (all one hundred and twenty odd of you via feedburner...

What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong Working towards writing this piece, I was horrified to discover that Clear Channel, the corpor...

Zadok The Priest -- George Frideric Handel Only the best classical pieces can drag themselves unscathed from being eviscerated and used...

Books The best scene in the film version of The Addams Family is the surprise revelation that Thing, hitherto trapped in a box during the ...

Music Alanis Morissette has a new album coming along in June. Flavors of Entanglement . Musically it sounds a touch confusing : "Mo...

Journalism Is it just me, or does this Iranian news website have a conceptual design similarity to the recently redesigned BBC News websi...

Video Killed The Radio Star – Buggles The thesis of Trevor Horn’s song (from the album The Age of Plastic ) is that radio stars have be...

Plays The Music of Oasis – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra I bloody love The Puppini Sisters . And The Pavão Quartet . Frankly I lov...