Spike Milligan

The time Spike Milligan tried to kill me

30 August 2025 4:00 am

The theatre impresario Michael White rang me one day in 1964, and said he was presenting a play at the…

The majority of sexual encounters in giraffes involve two males necking

Humans are animals, and our extinction is inevitable – but we’re still pretty amazing

22 September 2018 9:00 am

Ever since enlivenment of the primordial blob, before thoughts were first verbalised, all nature has always been motivated by a…

From Spike Milligan — and Marge Simpson — with love, light, peace and great respect

24 October 2015 9:00 am

This book is a serious bit of kit. Its hard covers measure 28.9 by 21 centimetres, and it weighs 1.62…

Low life

11 October 2014 9:00 am

As I think I said in this column the other week, I used to sneak into English lectures at University…