Once in a while you read something and keep going yes, yes, yes ( Read more... )

There's been a lot written in the papers about the case of Carol Hill, the sacked dinner lady. If you remember, Ms Hill was fired by the school governors after telling parents that she'd intervened to help their little girl, who'd been tied up to a fence with a skipping rope by some boys in her class. The parents had merely been told that she'd ( Read more... )

Who has read Stieg Larsson? If so, what did you think?

Ok, so my dad is a professor of medicine...big science dude, in other words ( Read more... )

I'm looking for a good girl-group compilation to buy as a present ( Read more... )

Let me tell you a family saga of domestic tragedy, drama and horror that has been unfolding over this balmy west London summer ( Read more... )

...I only realised, when I read it in the paper two days ago, that Torchwood is an anagram of Doctor Who...

Any Wimsey fans out there might remember that Lord P sometimes used to take lucky ladies to Le Boulestin...it was one of the most fashionable restaurants in London in the late 20s and early 30s...it was still around until the mid-90s, I went there on my birthday once, had some fantastic smoked haddock I remember ( Read more... )

That's the total number of fucking racist bastards in this country who voted BNP. Unbelievable. I'm so angry. I don't care if there's a recession, I don't care if people haven't got jobs, that's still no excuse for racism. Some milquetoast Tory was making mealy-mouthed excuses for BNP voters last night. "Oh they don't really agree with the racist ( Read more... )

The number of people who voted BNP in Yorkshire and Humber, thus sending an MEP to shame us all in Brussels. I thought better of them.