The Plashing Vole

Sorry. Terrible Fiddler's Dram reference there. My heart lifts when I get catch the train to Bangor. Well, after Crewe, anyway. The la...

Well, obviously it isn't, but I've had a good few days after the intense pressure of last week. The sun's shining and it's a...

The evil, homophobic, slimy 'story' about Gateley by Jan Moir has been annoying pretty much everybody in the country today - now Cha...

Imagine that an institution was instituting swingeing cuts (say, 250 jobs), cutting modules and degree courses, generally making staff unhap...

Thanks to his gift of Katie Price's Perfect Ponies , Amazon now recommends more Katie Price, alongside books about Letter Carving and ty...

Reading his comments on Plashing Vole about music, you'd think he listened to nothing but Timberlake, Dizzee Rascal and P-Funk, and that...

Less than a week after trying to ban any reporting of a parliamentary question about their client Trafigura's poisoning of 30,000 Ivoria...

Ewarwoowar, good chap that he is, got his hands dirty by reading an article in the Daily Mail , which - as we've previously established ...

 A while back, I had some fun at the expense of Nazi Alan B'stard lookalike, Geert Wilders, who was turned away from the UK for being a...

This is stunning (via Pharyngula ): a judge in - well, you guess the country - refuses to marry interracial couples but says he isn't r...

Good morning, children. I can almost see light at the end of this week's tunnel, and what a week it's been. The latest on the redund...

(That's an in-joke, by the way - the title of another Damon and Naomi album). However, here's an even sadder song: Low covering the ...

OK, I'm not feeling that cocky, but at least it's over. Turns out I'd prepared several more hours lecture material than the two ...

This is Stile Antico, the new kids on the block currently dominated by The Sixteen and the Tallis Scholars

All hail Maxi Sopo , who updated his Facebook status to tell all his friends about his new home. As you do. Unless, of course, you're ...

Just got Östergren's The Hurricane Party , a future dystopian retelling of Norse mythology. One day I'll even get round to reading i...

I nicked the phrase from In The Loop . It's the practice of stuffing a meeting with extra bodies to make the principals feel valued. I...

When the various anti-terrorism laws were set in place, the government promised everybody that these powers were to cope with a limited, awf...

Hello all. Despite the mirth occasioned by the Perfect Ponies  discussion, today's one of utter misery. Four meetings, one of which I...

Many thanks to the anonymous individual who sent me a sparkly pink book entitled  Katie Price's Perfect Ponies . I'm not sure who. ...