The nation’s favourite carrot-top pop-sociologist…well, the nation’s only carrot-top pop-sociologist, David McWilliams, has scored quite a coup with the telegenic regurgitation of hi
One of the first reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s 1,085-page novel, Against the Day, has appeared in Time. Richard Layco’s tone is that of a green-faced dinner who ordered something “adve
After extensive research (one and a half minutes on Google) I have been unable to find the source for “no matter who you vote for the government always wins.” It’s certainly true her
Sponsorship is an idea that should never have been divulged to the Poles. At the moment there is an ad campaign for hospice care. Posters on bus stops invite you to send a text message to the hospice
All news is local, they say, so here’s what Poland looks like going by the pages of a classified ads newspaper that comes out twice a week here: Poles love cars. One third of the paper is given
Who is Brian Atene? A month ago, apparently, if you Googled his name, all you would turn up was a school photo from the late 1970s. Now, thanks to the star-making power of You Tube, the Google query &
Following the rout of the Republicans at the polls, sub-editors across the globe have, perhaps gloatingly, dubbed President Bush and his Secretary for Defence as “casualties of war.” Perha
South America, of course. Here is the first sentence of a news (not comment) article reporting Daniel Ortega’s victory in Nicaragua’s presidential elections: “The former revolutionar
At the risk of sounding like one of those warbling thesps who bang on about the “dangers” of the stage and the “high-wire act” of live theatre, I suggest that going for a fancy
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