Oh Pantomimes, what to say about such an unusual topic. Nobody understands them, if they say they do, they are telling you a fib. Here is how you make a Panto. Take one fairy tale. Take out the horrible bits. Insert some men dressed as women, some...

Buy, buy, buy, N-Sync once sang. Were they concerned with someone leaving or eager to encourage people to buy dolls in their likeness? Definitely the latter. Yes advertising, everyone is at it and it probably does not work. While Rick is away...

Christmas Time, queuing in line. Don't know what to buy for your wife. Well just give up. It's not going to work, she'll never be happy, you'll never be happy. Let's just write this whole Christmas shopping list off and try again next year.   But...

Here it is, Merry Christmas.   Slade, Wizzard and Yoko One.  They’ve all had a bash at the Christmas song.  Some more successfully than others.   But what makes a Christmas song?  Sure, liberal application of the word...

‘If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking’, wrote Haruki Murakami.  Good point Haruki.  It’s why, through our recent eccentric phase, we only read shampoo bottles....

Thanks, so freely given in civilised, British society, has its own National Holiday in America.  To remind them.     Pilgrims, cranberries and good, wholesome family time.  I think we can all agree we’ve got a lot to be thankful...

America.  A country torn in two. A nation torn asunder.  A pair of nigh-on transatlantic institutions divide the country, pitting neighbour against neighbour, sibling against sibling and big Ronald against…some sort of animated King?...

Remember remember the 5th of November.   It’s too good a rhyme; single-handedly responsible for us, four centuries on, celebrating the thwarting of something that, you can probably tell from the thwarting, never happened.   Menacing...

Halloween is nearly upon us, and, almost as traditional, Rick and Paul are here to exploit the festivities with a show all about goats.   Do you believe in them?  Ever look out into a field at night and just see a pair of yellow eyes staring...

The 1980s   The decade that gave us Back to the Future, Nintendo and the collapse of the Berlin Wall and with it, the Cold War.  Would we have traded it all though, for better fashion?   But no, NO, we’ll not cheapen ourselves with...