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Last night, I was standing outside The Northumberland Arms, on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and Grafton Way. As usual, I had a pint...

I've just posted up two videos from my schooldays. Each year, the physics department at Hanson Upper School in Bradford organised a trip...

For those who don't know, Philippe Petit is a French high wire artist who gained world fame when, at 7:15am on August 7th 1974, he stepped...

Years and years ago I was asked at an interview "So, do you subscribe to the views of C.P. Snow?" This presented two problems; I had no...

Some years ago my daughter, who was nine at the time, asked what the big black circly things in the cardboard envelopes were so I began...

I'm just re-aquainting myself with the merest iota of the slightest possibility of going camping. This micro-urge is leaping from my...

On Wednesday at the Fitzroy Tavern on Charlotte Street in Central London you'll find London's second-worst Comedy Club - The Pear Shaped...

I like comedy. I watch a lot of it, maybe too much - Clive Anderson says that if you become too knowledgeable on any subject you can no...

Whatever the late Keith Floyd protested about his poor and humble upbringing, there was a permanently evident vein of the old-money,...