Bristling Badger

Over on his blog , the redoubtable Jim Bliss has done a blog meme that's going round called 7x7. Seven questions to the blogger that wa...

Just got an email from a friend who's fluent in Spanish and English. She got a last-minute call to go to Venezuela to interpret at the W...

The other week I went up a mountain an whoah, I loved it. The big sweep of rural vista hit something primal, essential and marvellous. But o...

As regular readers will know, I hold a deep conviction that Chris De Burgh is evil. And I'm pleased to report that, despite - let's ...

First they came for the smokers, and I did not speak out because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the peanuts... Last Thursday The Ind...

Bob Geldof has been recruited to advise the new shiny sexy touchy-feely Tory party on stuff. He says , 'I'll shake hands with the de...

Independent columnist Deborah Orr agrees that the proposed re-grading of cannabis back up to Class B is daft. She points to the supposed m...

A bit achey today but glad of it, as yesterday I climbed Ingleborough which is, by a whisker, the second highest mountain in Yorkshire. Ther...

The facts speak for themselves. 2005 was the hottest year on record in the northern hemisphere. The ten hottest years on record have all be...

The festive season is a time for intoxication and tradition. As ever, at the new year turn of midnight I was drunkenly singing Ace of Spades...