Easy to read, easy to like. Frank Skinner's account of his move back to doing stand up comedy is astonishingly frank (scuse the pun). He...

I enjoyed this book. Witty and self deprecating, but surprisingly good on common sense business advice. Having met him recently and got it s...

I'm sure there's a new version of this that sums up the fact that we get all our kids singing along to this fantastic tune in the ca...

The match today was dull stuff and deserves to be last on Match of the Day tonight. It was summed up by one key moment. David Dunn gets the ...

Rovers are playing West Ham today and we're looking forward to a trip to Ewood. Given the events at West Ham's last match some of th...

* The first two Oasis albums were blisteringly good. They captured a time and had an incredible energy, the concerts in this country were th...

It's a pretty bold statement to say a joke is the best ever. And so I'm slightly suspicious when TV channel Dave has awarded the bes...

I first heard extracts from The Junior Officer's Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey on Radio 4's Midweek and it was compelling and ...

The commute home on the 18:06 from Manchester Piccadilly to Rose Hill Marple is a very pleasant experience at the moment; today there was pl...

After a great holiday, and the subsequent shock of having to get back into the commuting and working, I thought I'd lay off the grog. I...

An Evertonian of my acquaintance was in a philosophical mood on Tuesday as he reflected on Saturday's 6-1 home lashing by Arsenal. It fe...

I bade farewell to my midlife crisis car today, my Audi A4 convertible. No more whizzing round with the top down, pleading with kids to get ...

When the sun shines in Cornwall, then all is well with a domestic holiday. And ours was special this year. But the perverse thing about a Br...

It's become a tradition on this blog to predict the Premier League places and some other issues around the other leagues. Last season wa...

After dipping in and out of various autobiographies, long magazine articles and bits of newspaper, sitting down in one sitting to devour thi...

It must be 33 years since I last went fishing. But the old magic (and the old ineptitude) was still there this afternoon as we messed around...

After the rant, here , about Griff Rhys Jones comes another history programme of a comedian on a journey, this time it's "Who do yo...

Try anything once, within reason. Here's me having a go at clay pigeon shooting in Cornwall. What a lot of fun this is. I think next tim...

You've all heard the opening line of many, many BBC documentaries where a middle aged comedian is on a journey - and the rest is just a ...

Sorry for not smiling, because I was very happy indeed. There is no sensation more likely to make you feel like you're on holiday than s...