It's a very sad day today. Today we have heard that the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died. Seamus Heaney was the fi...

cricket bats - good and solid willow. The word pitch has loads of meanings: you can pitch an idea, pitch a ball at baseball; it...

I was laying in bed the other night, the night of the shooting stars – the meteor showers, reading a book by one of my favourite authors,...

I wrote in a blog some time ago about the film director Alan Smithee – who doesn't exist. It's a name film directors use when...

Memorial Day in America is a national holiday; what you would call in Britain a bank holiday, and when I first moved there I would go to...

  Does the wife of a Conservative MP have labour pains? Am I royalist? Well I wasn't at one time till I thought of the alternat...

The Zimmermann Telegram. Here's a little tale for you; you may find it interesting, you may not, but I am only passing it o...

Seven seven (7/7) in Britain is like nine eleven (9/11) in America; 7/7 was the day of the London Bombings in 2005; although if 9/11 had ...

Let's hear it for a great script writer! He concentrated on television and consequently became the most innovative writer for televis...

I was at Green Park tube station the other day; not above ground but way below changing from the Jubilee Line to the Piccadilly Line; I a...