"I think we should get back to prisons."

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Journalism In this recent interview I posted with a PR , they noted how they hate being mentioned in interviews and underneath I noted tha...

That's Entertainment, has opened a store on Bold Street

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Film  The discount entertainment chain which rose phoenix-like from the flames of Music Zone,  That's Entertainment , has opened a store...

Lovefilm will now be carrying Universal's back catalogue.

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Film Back in March, I tried to get to the bottom of why Lovefilm weren't carrying Universal films and received the usually disappoint...

Mark Morris’s Mr Invincible

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Audio  In Mark Morris’s Mr Invincible , Jack drifts back to Earth seeking the truth of his revelation about Gwen’s assassination from Red...

"Win or lose."

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Film Roger Ebert remembers being invited to John Wayne's house : "He took another rifle from the wall and held it up for inspec...

"Or the Merlin set."

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TV The BBC's posted this first official location photo of Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman on the Doctor Who set .  Or the Merli...

they're probably googling me

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Fashion Given the speed with which the web works, you've probably already read this collection of tweets by Melissa Stetten , the mod...

"clicks, burrs and burps"

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Audio One of the sounds I've missed, really missed, since moving to broadband is the sound of a dial-up modem. The clicks, burrs and ...

"as opposed to Facebook status updates, tweets and the like"

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Grammar The New York Times explains the correct usage of commas : "As a professor at the University of Delaware, I read a lot of wr...

"Dimbleby talked too much"

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TV The BBC defends jubilee coverage. In 2002 : "The BBC took more than 3,000 jubilee-related calls from viewers, according to a sp...

"Did you see Charlie?"

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Travel At the end of last month, Ian Jones did what I've often considered. He bought one of those Lancashire rail rovers tickets and ...

"leap frogging ahead of Holly Valance"

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Music Amid the Jubilee jubilations (oh BBC where art thou?) I forgot to mention the important news that as part of their celebration of si...

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“Is this God?”

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TV The AV Club's random roles visits Bruce McGill who talks about appearing in the final episode of Quantum Leap , one of the greatest...

"young, attractive, well-educated"

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TV A couple of months ago IO9 published this rather good interview with Waris Hussein , the first director on Doctor Who about attitudes t...

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"Listen."

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Life I prefer silence, but living where I do, it's of limited availability and earplugs are of little use since all they do is amplify...

The Sunday Seven:
Emily Speed.
Artist.

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Emily Speed in an artist whose work I've really admired at various exhibitions in Liverpool across the years, most recently in the Top...

Cake.

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The Big Jubilee Lunch on Piccadilly , a photo by The British Monarchy on Flickr.

"blinded by a champagne cork"

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Politics Say what you like about Boris, and you can say a lot about Boris, he's always available for the unexpected answer to the pred...