Politics I continue to be obsessed with the US presidential campaign season, far more to be honest than I've ever been with our own el...

Liverpool Life Here, then, the obligatory Liverpool blogger's photo of La Machine , which I visited this morning just before it was ho...

Giant spider brings Liverpool to standstill La Machine is here and it's big. I wondered how they were going to demolish that building. ...

Politics There's an unnerving similarity between this ... ... and this ... isn't there?

Elsewhere I spin round in circles trying to review a Doctor Who novel because I don't want to give too much away.

Audio This morning, when the Large Hadron Collider was turned on at CERN in Geneva, the world didn’t end, despite the presence of Radio 4’...

Books Expectation is one of the more intriguing emotions. Before reading Simon Messingham’s The Doctor Trap, I’d expected to open the sub...

Collective: Amy Winehouse in 2003 The BBC's largely user content motivated culture site recently closed but the archive is still up and ...

Hamlet played by Joseph Tura The title of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 film offers a double meaning. Of course there’s the Hamlet reference which...

Politics A Sarah Palin pregnancy story/rumour is all over the internet . After an initial flurry of excitement all I'll say is that b...

Life I've been waiting for a quiet moment to write about this. It's not much of a story. Actually it is a story and you can read...

About Wow, I've only just noticed that Off The Telly is back online, spruced up and dynamic! Not all the old content is back up yet...

The Flying Doctors comes to dvd. I've had one of those days were time just seems to disappear from under you and it's suddenly eigh...

Geoffrey Perkins, the former BBC TV head of comedy has died in a road accident in London. That is really, really tragic. Perkins was the pr...

I've had a letter... Hello, I am absolutely loving the Hamlet blog - the play happens to be my personal favourite so it's nice to se...

Books   Pity Colin Brake, or at least the 2001 version of him.  Writing his first novel, he’s commissioned to cap off one of the most experi...

The Sugababes: does intra-band tension create the best music? Thesis -- that the babes have been getting worse the more they've become c...

Film On release a few months ago, Wong Kar-wai’s My Blueberry Nights received a fair few mixed reviews -- many were beguiled by it, but...

George Lucas is lining his wallet once more and rereleasing both trilogies in new boxes. The reaction at the Amazon review pages is suitabl...

Sport If our hyped eight minutes of the Olympic closing ceremony were meant to offer a taste of what our life is like in modern Britain t...