Vocoders in songs are crap. Anyone who has a pop memory that reaches back to Cher’s “Do You Believe” will no doubt agree. And without being too bigotted, not many of the people I know can think of any great French pop, apart from the Vanessa Paradis rendition of “Jo le taxi”. But I just […]

Now the good thing about being a beginner in a full contact martial art such as Wu Shu Kwan must be the being kicked in the head. So much so that one pays for the privilege. Last night, there were some new punters at the Hammersmith class. People who didn’t pay heed to the barked

If you, like me, are keen to improve your vocabulary, you might have joined a ‘vocabulary building daily email list’ such as the one provided by Dr. Dictionary. You may even have joined it with friends and exchanged emails, testing your new vocabulary: Dear Madge, you slugabed in your manse, I hope you are not