Sex offender
I saw Prince play once. I was bored rigid but couldn’t mention this to the girls I’d gone with: as…
His dark materials
So: Game of Thrones. Finally — season six — the TV series has overtaken the books on which it is…
Oxford in my day was another, better world
I was in the attic killing some Taleban on Medal of Honor when Girl interrupted and said: ‘Dad, what’s this?’…
Oxford in my day was another, better world
I was in the attic killing some Taleban on Medal of Honor when Girl interrupted and said: ‘Dad, what’s this?’…
An inconvenient truth
‘Our findings will shock many people,’ promised Trevor Phillips at the beginning of What British Muslims Really Think (Channel 4,…
An inconvenient truth
‘Our findings will shock many people,’ promised Trevor Phillips at the beginning of What British Muslims Really Think (Channel 4,…
Give thanks for the tomb raiders
If ever you find yourself in Berlin, there are three places you absolutely must visit. The first two are museums:…
Give thanks for the tomb raiders
If ever you find yourself in Berlin, there are three places you absolutely must visit. The first two are museums:…
Love at first sight
Now the kids are back for the school holidays, I have a licence to watch complete trash again. No more…
Love at first sight
Now the kids are back for the school holidays, I have a licence to watch complete trash again. No more…
What will I do with my second chance at life? Play more video games, for a start
Does a near-death experience make you a better person? This is something I’ve been thinking about on and off since…
What will I do with my second chance at life? Play more video games, for a start
Does a near-death experience make you a better person? This is something I’ve been thinking about on and off since…
Greedy greenies
‘We have a problem. Yes. At the wind farm.’ Any conspiracy thriller with lines like that has definitely got my…
Greedy greenies
‘We have a problem. Yes. At the wind farm.’ Any conspiracy thriller with lines like that has definitely got my…
Want to leave the EU? You must be an oik like me
If you need to know how properly posh you are there’s a very simple test: are you pro- or anti-Brexit?…
Want to leave the EU? You must be an oik like me
If you need to know how properly posh you are there’s a very simple test: are you pro- or anti-Brexit?…
Northern exposure
Some things I have learned about Iceland after watching six episodes of Trapped (BBC4, Saturdays). 1. They seem to feel…
Northern exposure
Some things I have learned about Iceland after watching six episodes of Trapped (BBC4, Saturdays). 1. They seem to feel…
What was this bed-blocker doing on my ward?
There’s some journalistic research you’d really never do by choice. Spending four days in an NHS hospital with a life-threatening…
What was this bed-blocker doing on my ward?
There’s some journalistic research you’d really never do by choice. Spending four days in an NHS hospital with a life-threatening…
Time to put my money where my mouth is
‘As oil crashes, is it time to short solar stocks?’ Gosh, I wish I’d read that headline a year ago.…
Time to put my money where my mouth is
‘As oil crashes, is it time to short solar stocks?’ Gosh, I wish I’d read that headline a year ago.…
Class of ’83
No one remembers this now but there really was a period, not so long ago, when the Eighties were universally…
Class of ’83
No one remembers this now but there really was a period, not so long ago, when the Eighties were universally…
Nature is red in tooth and claw. Get over it
Wild Lone is one of the most violent books I’ve ever read. It was published just before the last war…
