“It ain’t over till it’s over,” Yogi Berra famously used to say. If you’re an English rugby fan, there can be no truer words to reflect your recent experience. I normally don’t follow rugby very closely, for various family reasons, but have a habit of walking in to watch the last 5 minutes of major [...]

There’s been a bit of a to-do recently following a comment by Richard Dawkins here.* Chris Dillow, who blogs here, said this:- Here’s a curious statement from Richard Dawkins (via Norm): “When you think about how fantastically successful the Jewish lobby has been, though, in fact, they are less numerous I am told – religious [...]

I specifically asked for a cherry-red Gibson ES335 semi-acoustic guitar with a Vox AC-30 Amplifier for my 40th birthday. I can’t really play electric guitar, and had no real intention of taking it up. But the same genes that pushed me into marathon-running were finding expression; it was a pure materialism/mid-life crisis mashup. March 2005 [...]

Mention to some people that you blog and an accusatory stare springs to their face — as if you have departed the planet and returned with green antennae. Even suggest in polite English company of-a-certain-age that you use any kind of computer gadgetry and you are confined to the tradesman’s entrance of their interest for [...]

Knackered Downunder loses the will to watch The boredom of long-haul flying is doing wonders highlighting the unimaginativeness and mediocrity of much of modern-day Hollywood, as well as reinforcing the old adage “100 channels and nothing to watch”. On a recent flight from Sydney to Tokyo — almost 10 hours — it occurred to me [...]