The Appalling Strangeness

...through the distorted worldview of Katie Hopkins. For those of you who don't know - and blessed is your world, because it will not ...

I've tried, you know. I've really tried to get the enthusiasm back for this blogging malarkey, but it just isn't happening. So I...

One of the most tedious charges that has been levelled at me by people who don't really know what they are talking about is that I am so...

I was thinking of doing a countdown/reassessment of the Doctor Who episodes of the year, but my opinons haven't really changed and a sim...

Ah, a festive tradition - a Christian belly-aching about Christmas losing its essential meaning . Cue a whole host of comments, some backing...

Well, quite simply that was the best Doctor Who Christmas special ever. It managed to take the different elements of a good Christmas story...

Now the rest of the GOP field has peaked too early, people are adopting that predictable position - through nothing more meaningful than a c...

Merry Christmas y'all! Hope you have a good one celebrating in whatever way you see fit and whatever way works for you. Oh, and don...

'Tis the season to watch festive films. And what a choice you have! You can watch the curious tale (on paper at least) of  a retarded an...

A brief missive from the blogging wilderness: Today is a special sort of a day. Today you may get incontrovertible proof that some people ...

Soooo..... regular readers of this blog will have noted a certain inactivity of late. When posting has happened, it has been sporadic at bes...

Now, as regular readers will know, I'm not the world's biggest fan of the occupy movement. I think there is much wrong in this world...

It would seem remiss of me not to post this . In fact, it is probably remiss of me not to have done so already...

Over at Orphans of Conservatism Liberty , James Higham has been considering art and aesthetics. And he offers some thoughts on females and ...

So, in the world of the nation's favourite Time Lord, we've had some big news this week - namely, that some chap who has done some ...

Let's be honest about it, Paranormal Activity 2   - or Paranormal Inactivity as I prefer to call it - was poor. As any horror movie tha...

The 2012 Olympics are already deeply tedious, and we haven't even reached 2012 yet. Any chance we could all just pretend that they had a...

Number of random nutters at the bus station this morning: 3. Number of random nutters who want to have a conversation with me: 3. You ca...

To the makers of Felix "As good as it looks" cat food: it doesn't look that good. In fact, it looks like shredded chunks of de...

As things stand, we’re probably heading towards another hung parliament. Cameron is not repelling people as much as many thought he would,...

When I heard yesterday afternoon about the Church's u-turn on the Occupy protests I couldn't help but think that it is pretty much ...

Now, I’m not the world’s biggest fan of democracy. I’m certainly not one of these people who fetishize it and argue that it should be an agg...

Halloween is all about watching horror movies and/or reading ghost stories. For me, the ultimate televised ghost story is Ghostwatch . If yo...