E.L. Heath: Snailbeach District Railway

Eric Heath is a Shropshire-based multi-instrumentalist. Born in Athens, Georgia, he was brought up in London and moved to Shropshire at the ...

Welcome to the new Liberal Democrat bloggers

Three new blogs appeared on the LibDemBlogs aggregator in October. Thanks to Ryan Cullen for sending me the details. Lanarkshire Liberal i...

The Exorcism by Don Taylor is on DVD

I am not a great one for Halloween, but this is as good a night as any to blog this. Back in 2007 I wrote: What is the most frightening tel...

George Lazenby sells Fry's Turkish Delight

I enjoyed Premium Bond , Matthew Sweet and Mark Gatiss's canter through the James Bond films the other evening. One thing they did not m...

HETL chemist presents paper at national meeting

Jamie Foss, Chemist II with the Forensic Chemistry Section at Maine CDC's Health and Environmental Testing Lab (HETL), recently presente...

Jonathan Meades on Dennis Potter

This blog's hero Jonathan Meades reviews a selection of Dennis Potter's non-fiction in the Literary Review . He questions Potter...

Brief Encounter still moves us 70 years on

View image | gettyimages.com There was a tremendous episode of The Film Programme about Brief Encounter on Radio 4 yesterday. Listen to it...

Martin Amis and the left

Introducing his attack on Jeremy Corbyn the Sunday Times described Martin Amis, improbably, as "a leading figure on the British left fo...

Food Reward Friday

This week's lucky "winner"... the Reese's PBC Burger!! Image credit: The Works Read more »