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With Remembrance Sunday approaching...

Tim — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:02:00 GMT

Another sobering reminder of just why we had to fight those Germans.

At last a religion I can really believe in...

Tim — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:03:00 GMT

www.tarvu.comIt's so easy to join.

one one eight

Tim — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The 118 118 guys will never be endearing and it's time everyone involved just blummin well grew up and accepted that.You can't just keep throwing money at the problem.Sisyphus-like, 118 118 have pushed this pair of mustachio'd boulders, y

Total Film - Four Stars

Tim — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:42:00 GMT

Has anyone ever noticed how movie magazine Total Film gives (more or less) every single big budget film a review of four stars? It's actually a great idea. Every major film release can count on this one reasonably positive endorsem

Over-packaged Item of the Week - Winner: Morrisons

Tim — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:48:00 GMT

Astonishingly over-packaged vitamins from Morrisons. The 30 tablets you get [yes, the amount in the picture] barely cover the bottom of the thick, sturdy plastic container with over-engineer safety lid. Well done Morrisons.

Close Encounters of the Morrison's Kind

Tim — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:31:00 GMT

It's one minute to eleven on a Sunday Morning and dozens of people have assembled at the doors of Morrisons, Shepherds Bush. People from yards around, acting on impulses they can't explain, have felt compelled to come to this place, to watch

Whatever happened to The Journal of Silly

Tim — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:45:00 GMT

I saw this in the paper at the weekend and larfed and larfed.It made me wonder what happened to the lesser known but much loved publication The Journal of Silly. For those who never saw it, it was handy A5-sized magazine full of mostly single and dou

Quiet Protest

Tim — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT

I went on my first ever Critial Mass bicycle ride through London yesterday and felt quietly proud and very positive to have been part of the protest.Critical Mass London is a very loose organisation. They have no real manifesto other than bikes

Skoob Books Driven Underground by Chain Stores

Tim — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:42:00 GMT

I was up in the Brunswick Centre, Bloomsbury, the other day and went looking for Skoob Books, one of London's best second hand bookshops. When I arrived at the place I remember the shop being located, I found this... The chain stores had moved in

Jonathan Meades

Tim — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:01:00 GMT

A Yentob aside, I love most TV art critics these days. We are blessed with a good crop.Andrew Graham-Dixon’s (the thinking man’s Alan Partridge) and his Art of Spain was especially fine viewing. Dan Cruickshank's presented his Advent

Humphrey Lyttelton

Tim — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:24:00 GMT

It's hard not to feel sad about the death of Humphrey Lyttelton. He seemed to represent a subversive side of th At the same time, it's hard to be too pofaced. Any thoughts of Humph inevitably involve memories of his deadpa

Out and About #568983.3 - Mister Pumpernink's Pizza

Tim — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:11:00 GMT

Being partially unemployed recently I’ve had time to consider the cheesy enigma, smothered in a claggy tomato paste of puzzlement, wrapped in a soggy calzone of intrigue that is the riddle of the continuing existence of Mister Pumpkernink&rsquo

I Thought This Was Kinda Sweet

Tim — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:19:00 GMT

Nice that he wasn't attacked by chickens. Did you ever see such serene muppets?

Jodrell Bank and Penny Pinching Lunacy

Tim — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:48:00 GMT

08.42: BBC Radio 4's Today Programme reports: The future of Jodrell Bank, Britain's leading centre for astrophysics, is under threat due to government cuts in science funding.There's magically £9.3bn (a conservative estima

What 'Makes' People Cheat

Tim — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:05:00 GMT

Interesting article in the New York Times (skinny Observer version, Sunday 2nd March) on some research done by Kathleen D Vohs...The upshot of which seems to suggest the more controlling a society is, or is perceived to be, the more people will be di

Things That Just Aren't All That Convincing:

Tim — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:49:00 GMT

Press photographers in movies. They tend to have rubbish prop cameras that don’t click right (have you ever seen a real Pap with his massive mile long lenses??). Also they just snap away at anything, in all directions. They take pictures of the

He's Back

Tim — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:13:00 GMT

I got a little giddy with excitement hearing there was a trailer for the new Indiana Jones film. It's great to have this to look forward to.

Childish EPG Titters

Tim — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:49:00 GMT

Great to see Setanta Sports giving the public what they really want. Maybe this will see a turn around for the seemingly dead in the water subscription TV model. In other news:

My Little Tribute to a Great Man.

Tim — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:02:00 GMT

God how we'll mis him.

Pure Class

Tim — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:29:00 GMT

Forget the Henry VIII suite at the Excalibur Hotel, I think I've just seen the classiest thing of all time. MacDonalds, Kensington High Street has a grand piano.It's actually a £15,000 Roland

Saint Esther

Tim — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:11:00 GMT

Those of a nervous dispostion should not read this. Be warned, what you are about to read may leave an image burned onto your minds-eye that you'll want to scour off with wire wool and vim. Found in the "This much I know " section of to

Dermot Murnaghan leaves BBC Breakfast for Sky News

Tim — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:41:00 GMT

Dermot Murnaghan. God, how we'll miss him.Some said he had the personality of a cardboard box.But they forget, cardboard boxes can be quite exciting.Kids, for example, love them. So do tramps.Some said he had all the charm of a book of stamp

Things I've Been Thinking About at the End 2007

Tim — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:41:00 GMT

Bikes... are the answer to so many of our problems. Yet councils do next to nothing for cyclists. If town councils took the same attitude to dissabity access as the do to provision for cyclists they'd probably be dragged bodily into the street an

Modern Life is Rubbish #2892 The Sun

Tim — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:31:00 GMT

I keep seeing this advert on the side of London buses and I wanted to write something pithy and Brooker-esque about just how bewilderingly meagre it is as a concept. But then, surely the point of an advert *is* to stick in the mind. This, for me, doe

HD Ready and Waiting

Tim — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:59:00 GMT

A lot of people have bought HD Ready tellies recently. Most of them probably watch their TV of an evening and think '…wonder what High Def TV actually looks like on this thing?'They sit and wonder because there is no HD TV to watch. It