I know that cricket isn’t a particularly popular sport in the country of my birth but since spending last years Ashes filming with the England team I am certainly a convert to the game. I also must give some credit to my friend and cricket fanatic Miles Jupp who...
I wrote a while back about the great Rich Hall documentary The Dirty South which was the best thing I’d seen on television in some time. I have a similar urge once more having watched the fourth episode of Steve Coogan’s The Trip on BBC2. I thought the...
I’m sitting in Swiss Cottage library, the best library in the borough of Camden in my opinion, typing on my lap top and listening to the Withered Hand album Good News. I have an ever so slight hangover after trying to help a friend come to terms with the end of...
I feel I have a pretty good success rate with the books I choose to read. By that I mean I enjoy the majority of books I get lost in and have had a pretty good run of things recently. Whether it be fiction or non fiction, I have chosen wisely and been satisfied as a...
The argument that Americans don’t get satire has been all but quashed by the work of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Bill Maher to name but three. In fact, as has been widely documented, their satire has segued in to the voice of reason on many occasions which...
