TV To tonight's Pointless Celebrities which has now become the tea time tv fixture on a Saturday night now that we're into a run o...

Film For the past couple of years at around this time I've looked back at what happened in this blog's annual review a decade ag...

Beverages I don't drink. Well, I mean obviously I drink , just don't drink alcohol.  Much.  Regularly, if ever. Tonight,...

Film Here are then and here we go with the final, the last of these sometimes weekly what turned into film review posts. Back at the be...

This was the year I finally felt as though I’d come home. My family actually moved back from New York after five years in 2012 but it’s ta...

That Day We reach the time when I assess how well I predicted the ups and downs of the year and look forward to the next. Here we go ag...

History: "The islands of the Pitcairn group have always had a close connection with Mangareva in the Gambier Archipelago, and at one...

TV Happy Boxing Day. Christmas Day passed off, as it so often does, like some fever dream, a more acutely lucid experience this year th...

Sontag, Swift, Shakespeare, Milton, Laing... #presents pic.twitter.com/fT76O2mMFG — Stuart Ian Burns (@feelinglistless) December 25, 2014...

Spoiler Alert: You’re rooting for the villain All these years, we’ve had heroes. Think Christopher Reeve in Superman , or think Melani...

Christmas on campus: what are international students up to this year? "A flight from London to Malaysia can cost over a grand – one ...

The Christmas card Every year I forget to send a Christmas card to my mate in Canada. Why? Well I don't see him on a day today basis...

Small Data: What are the chances of snow at Christmas? "Are you still dreaming of a white Christmas, asks Anthony Reuben. If so, yo...

Life  Christmas Day will mark my first full year of living, if not totally off the grid, at least several degrees west of it, so when Stua...

Santa's real workshop: the town in China that makes the world's Christmas decorations: "There’s red on the ceiling and red o...

Life I grew up near Penny Lane. I lived around there between the ages of three and 23, and then I got married and moved away. That mar...

Television in America (1951): "How a new daily diet of television in America is changing people's lives, as reported by Alistair...

Science  The slightly Doctor Who sounding Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a telescope high up in the mountains of Chile. It has...

Film What already? Well, yes, with the #garaiwatch run on, here I am again just five days later.  Feels a bit strange still posting the...

39 Dishes from the First Christmas Menu, Published in 1660: "If the thought of planning Christmas dinner makes you nervous, be glad ...