Stewart Lee is always the most satirically insightful writer on portraying a perverse world, here adopting a persona and defending a family normally anathema to him – demonstrating a poignancy within the acerbic – and exposing the grotesque hypocrisy of … Continue reading →

Two reasons: one, deferred gratification; two, there is plenty else to read on a Sunday, especially in The Observer: I obviously cover the news, then I like the music, TV and theatre reviews [this latter could seem overly cultured and/or … Continue reading →

[Illustration above from yesterday’s The Sunday Observer] I have written previously about my Monday morning breakfast pleasure of reading Stewart Lee’s satirical sketches from the day before in the new review, see here. Today’s [yesterday’s] was written by David Mitchell, … Continue reading →

Having to move a bookcase and its contents is a good way to encourage a pause and then a browse of some of those long unread books you’ve taken off the shelves for the shift. I had a quick scan … Continue reading →