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Another riveting walk through legal cases from Geoffrey Robertson QC, selectively illustrating how to be a barrister is to play the game of justice. Endlessly entertaining and painstakingly erudite (as you’d hope, for someone in his role), he contrasts the cases he’s been called into, illustrates the machinery of justice (for example the Privy Council,…
Biopic story of the genre-defying 90s art/comedy movement known as Cluub Zarathustra, following its live beginnings and journey through TV Land and beyond. Fun to come to love a gaggle of disparate comics in the 2010s and then learn years later that most of them were a gaggle of misfits in this, led by the…
December, eh? A time to look back and take stock of the past year. And now we’ve got AI we don’t even need to take our own stock – we can have The Machines do it for us! And so who of us under the age of 70 wouldn’t be delighted to read our auto-generated…
To coincide with the release of the LOOOOOOONG awaited Tap sequel this was the inevitable “What Happened Was…” book to sell to all the 40-something hangers-on like me, keen to get a peek behind the curtain. Told in a pretty honest way, this found its way into my heart entirely because of the stories and…
The story of Kenny Everett wasn’t an overly happy one, which I expect is probably pretty well-known to people who grew up in the UK at the time. As a pre-teen Australian growing up in the 80s and benefiting from Ken’s huge popularity and a failure of the cultural custodians to understand what they were…
I won’t claim it was the most popular post I’ve ever written, but a while ago I kinda vented a few frustrations around my attempts to realise an idea I had, whereby I could post content to an Instagram feed, and scrape that to push the content into WordPress to display on a timeline. The…
I’ve always held a fairly cavalier attitude to how long you can keep stuff safely in a domestic freezer. My formative years were influence heavily by the Master of long-term cold storage, my mother. In addition to her mostly-beige-powders spice rack which was stocked some time in 1965, and a comically museum-like pantry cupboard (in…
Maths anecdotes & trivia assembled in an engaging way by a great communicator – this took a LOT longer to get to reading than I’d hoped but it references earlier chapters throughout which really helps with the recall & comprehension side of things. The invention of 0, the people counting in base-12, cultures who are…
I’d watch Lou Sanders read a shopping list. The woman’s wonderful. This book’s a kind of disorganised foray into the world of autobiography, through the medium of short story: a bit weird in pace, but it allows her to get out the kernels of the ideas she wants to get across without contriving too much,…
Our washing machine packed up on Friday. In fact, it’s just something jammed in the drainage pump (we think), however to get to it you’ve got to basically take the whole thing apart – and based on recent repairs to the dishwasher we reckon that’s gonna be at least £100 for parts & labour. The…