Latitude Festival: Splatitude
It took us five long hours to drive to the Latitude Festival in Suffolk. The journey was interspersed with several pit-stops, emergency nappy changes and […]
Twittertude
Clare here, I’ve just popped into Tom’s blog to let you know we will be twittering from Latitude this weekend. If you’d like to follow […]
Latitude 2009
Clare and I will be taking Lily and Edie to the family-friendly Latitude Festival in Suffolk next week. This will be the first time […]
“Does Humour Belong in Politics?”
Can you honestly imagine Lenny Bruce or Bill Hicks submitting to the discipline of the Whips?
That was the Right Honourable MP for Ealing North, Stephen […]
Dancing in the Dark
I should be watching Bruce Springsteen at Hyde Park tonight.
As I may have mentioned previously, I tried to buy a pair of tickets on the […]
Orson Welles’ Chimes at Midnight
We have heard the chimes at midnight…
– Shakespeare, Henry IV
For as long as I remember, Orson Welles’ 1965 film Chimes at Midnight […]
John Dillinger Died For You
Seventy-five years ago today, the notorious American outlaw John Dillinger was shot to death by FBI agents as he was leaving the Biograph […]
BSG R.I.P.
Well, that’s it then…
I’ve just watched the final episode of the mighty Battlestar Galactica. I’m probably one of the last of the show’s legion […]
(Nothing But) Flowers
Last December I was driving past the former Matthew Boulton College building on Sherlock Street in Birmingham as it was being demolished. […]
The Citroën Dali
“Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole”
– The Modern Lovers
Last Thursday evening we were driving home from Wales. Clare was sitting […]