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Darragh McManus in the Guardian has chosen a list of books for Halloween, claiming that: one of the best ways to spend 31 October is by cur...

Tomorrow I fly to Bangkok for a night and a day. Brilliant timing , as ever. I was so looking forward to lunch and dinner there. Perhaps...

The 38th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is again from the August 1993 issue. The illustrations are b...

Giant corrugated cock up for auction How the sub-editors must have chortled . But it is good to see a cock called a cock not a rooster, whic...

The Pyongyang Times reports on a recent visit by Kim Jong Il to to the renovated Tudan Duck Farm: That day he enjoyed an art performance g...

The greatest living composer accepts the Gramophone award for best contemporary album of 2010, Night’s Black Bird . It is fantastic (you ca...

The 37th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the August 1993 issue (which, mortifyingly, was labe...

Further to this post on the Boston Herald ’s treatment of Occupy Boston, which took it every bit as seriously as it deserved, here is the ...

A fascinating review by Molly Guinness in the Spectator of La Séduction by Elaine Sciolino, a former New York Times journalist, who consi...

Peggy Lee, Frank Zappa and Joni Mitchell Yes, an unusual combination. Sadly, it never happened but jazz is like New Zealand – there are only...