I recently bemoaned the fact that it was getting increasingly difficult to find a decent pub meal. Yes, there are thousands of pubs offering ‘home-cooked’ food, but it’s all so bland, often tasting no better than ready meals found in supermarkets. And to make matters worse, you can leave one pub, travel across two counties, [...]

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Would you send out a brochure to your clients that is three, four or even five years old, featuring products and services that you no longer offer? No, you wouldn’t! So why do so many companies have websites that are so ludicrously out of date? Okay, so like most modern technology, websites are a bit [...]

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‘Going back’ is never a good idea … as any football manager will tell you. So perhaps I should not have been surprised when, after returning to a restaurant I first visited around three years ago, I was met with bitter disappointment. Back then I even wrote a review on this Leicestershire eatery, even though [...]

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The village of Pont-Saint Esprit in south-eastern France is, as a general rule, quiet and picturesque. But on 16th August 1951 its inhabitants suddenly experienced terrible hallucinations of terrifying beasts and fire; five people died, dozens were interned in asylums, and hundreds were afflicted.

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It’s rolled around again; that time when many of us consider whether to vote red or blue. Okay, some of you will be voting yellow or green, but in the main we’ll be choosing Liverpool or Everton. Oh, if only it were so. Actually, I’d trust Everton manager David Moyes to run the country far [...]

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I went to see Tim Burton’s much-hyped new movie Alice in Wonderland the other night: the 3D special effects were interesting (at least for the first 30 minutes), but the script was terrible and was only very, very loosely based on the book. It was a complete letdown – it didn’t do what it said [...]

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Now I don’t like criminals of any persuasion; personally, I’d utilise the Californian legal method of ‘three strikes and you’re out’ – meaning just three misdemeanours, no matter how small, and you’re locked up and the key thrown away. This would clean up most town centres overnight, whilst ensuring smaller class sizes in our schools [...]

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