Here’s a question for you. Who holds the record for the world’s most pointless world record? There must be hundreds of candidates. I remember someone doing laps of TV Centre carrying [...]
“Do you grow?” Sorry, but I can’t talk about vegetables without quoting Withnail and I – a policy I’d like to see enforced in supermarkets. “I think the carrot [...]
To steal from the wit of John Cooper Clarke, “I don’t normally do requests unless I’m specifically asked for them.” Well, someone did. We were just drinking up after [...]
Anyone who tuned in to the first episode of Gunpowder will, I’m sure, have been appalled by one of the early scenes, in which a young Jesuit priest was hanged, drawn and so-called [...]
It was brought to my attention this week that a high proportion of recent Words of the Week have been three-letter words. Ill, Fly, Key… to name but three. ‘Is there a word for a [...]
