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Friday, January 23, 2026
Remember when Ken Livingstone kept his calm in the face of these ignorant idiots playing politics and mutilating historical facts? More about the repulisive John...
Sir Tom Stoppard, the Czech-born playwright whose voice became one of the most distinctive in British theater, has died aged 88. Born as Tomáš...

Dorchester’s Dirty Secrets

A hidden history of grime, crime, scandal and survival in Dorset’s county town Dorchester looks terribly respectable at first glance, the sort of town that...
“All any of us were asking of Mark was to stand on that stage for an hour; he didn’t have to do the soundcheck...
The Residents Few bands can be described as “marmite” as much as The Residents. Spanning a career of over fifty years and countless recordings, they...
The only thing worse than politicians trying to be “down with the kids” (other than the phrase “down with the kids”) is right-wing Tories...
Bernie Gunther stands among the most distinctive figures in late-twentieth-century crime fiction — a detective forged in the fire of Weimar Germany, tempered by...

Britain’s Top Flagger

The brilliant Luke Wright with an equally brilliant poem summing up the flaggers. Luke Wright is a prominent figure in the contemporary British poetry scene,...
In Retrospect, We Could Have Avoided World War 2 and the Holocaust. What Would You Have Done? The Shot Not Taken: A Moment That Haunts...
Understanding the comedy of Lenny Bruce, one has to remember that it was a time when people had a reasonable understanding of what truth...