Squander Two

I heard this advert on the radio the other day. I'm quoting from memory so a word or two will be out of place, sure, but I swear this i...

An acquaintance of our family fosters children. She recently fostered a baby for a few weeks, whose mother felt she was unable to looking a...

If you already know this, then I'm sure it will be utterly uninteresting, but I didn't and it was quite a surprise. Mark Snow , who...

A few days ago, I was unfortunate enough to witness the BBC children's TV show Boogiebeebies . I strongly suspect that it is a classic ...

When I was a kid, I used to listen to Beatles records. Even then, in the late Seventies and early Eighties, they seemed kind of old. Follo...

Don't know if you've seen it, but there's this new commemorative 50p coin doing the rounds. It's a nice bit of graphic desig...

You eat till you're full, then an hour later you're hungry for power.

File under "worrying": A jet aircraft with 270 passengers on board was within 35 seconds of crashing into a blazing Russian satell...

At long last, a suitable counterweight to Terry Pratchett's "Gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide" is here: I'...

Courtesy of Benjamin Zimmer over at Language Log , here's a link to an episode of Maraka , one of the best spoofs of anything I've s...