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...
Just as in death as in life, the style of Tony Wilson is there for all to see. This headstone designed by Pete Saville might have been unveiled three years after his death but there’s no denying it belongs to the cool end of the headstone business if there is...
I had an enjoyable hour musing over all things musical with messrs Mark Ellen and David Hepworth as part of The Word magazine’s podcast this week. Later the same day I would take a wholly unproductive shopping trip to the Westfield shopping centre in Shepherds...
