A-Z of Little Things Little Boot's new single is Remedy, which I think is the most exciting dance record of the year and the reason I pr...

Film Rope is a film of firsts. The director's first use of technicolour, though trust Hitchcock to have been given the gift of techn...

Music Last year during the mystery music month I wrote about Airhead's Funny How and lamented its obscurity, my only copy a recordin...

Comic-Con | Culture | guardian.co.uk Anna Pickard's excellent Comic-Con dispatches: "While some of us spent most of the day with a ...

Quiz! On Sunday night, on a whim, because sometimes I can have a whim and do things on them, I ran an ad-hoc music quiz on twitter. After...

Comedy I think Josie Long is hilarious. Her routine on tonight's You Have Been Watching about the sheer horror of enjoying The Jerem...

Life It’s half past two this afternoon. I'm at work. My mobile phone rings. My mobile phone never rings when I’m at work. It caugh...

Update! I've had a reply on my complaint . Pizzagate success!

History With the sad death over the weekend of Harry Patch , the last surviving ‘Great’ War veteran, a vital link to that conflict has bee...

Life Watching The Winter’s Tale at the RSC wasn’t the only occasion I became sentimental on the trip. The other was in Warwick at the Co...

TV The rather good Canon and Sheep Shit: Why We Fight attempts to come to terms with canonicity in Doctor Who and ultimately comes to the...

TV The headline on this post-broadcast interview with Russell T Davies on the death of Torchwood's Ianto is a bit misleading (he says i...

Blue sky 2 , originally uploaded by Fabio Marini . Surprise! I love the unexpected, especially in music, and how sometimes the juxtaposition...

Food I've sent an email ... To: Customer Relations, Northern Foods: Find attached some photographs of your San Marco Familia Hawai...

And so for one final time ... The Cultural Tastes of the First Big Brother Eleven The Big Brother house was a necessarily sterile place wher...

Film One of the problems with the recent London Law & Order series was that although it was filmed in the UK, with British actors and ...

Electrification of Liverpool to Manchester rail line to be announced – Liverpool Daily Post – Dale Street Blues Liverpool to Manchester in t...

Huge comet punches an Earth-sized hole in Jupiter and an amateur discovers it My God! It's full of stars! Romeo & Juliet vs. The Liv...

Life One of my least favourite pastimes is grumbling about local transport in Liverpool. There’s never enough buses on the routes I need ...

TV Quick round up of the day's news. Firstly, Ben Cook and Lizo Mzimba on BBC Breakfast offering a first reaction to Matt Smith's...