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It being warmer of late and with the lockdown sort-of still in effect, Phil and I have had the bedroom windows open overnight. During normal times it would...

How do you launch a book during a pandemic? I don’t think anyone’s quite figured it out yet. My own view as resident marketing manager at Andi Watson...

One percent Hedgehog...

I have a new book out on the 7th of July, my first in English for quite some time. I’m a bit giddy.The inspiration for this book dates back many years to...

Prime Directive

I do not take my civic duties seriously. It gives me no pleasure to admit I’m neither a joiner or an active member of my community. Yes, I will moan about...

Once, while crossing the town square in Arras, I was asked by fellow author Una if I saw myself as a pan or a lid. A deeply philosophical question, the kind...

Legitimately tax-deductible

Look at me, I've read a book! For the last couple of years I've made a habit of reading a book a week and recording it on my Instagram. As so much of social...

"at least I don't have to take a test tomorrow morning."

As has been widely noted, the lifestyle of the cartoonist is uniquely suited to life during lockdown. The monkish existence of scribbling marginalia in the...

I guess you've also seen those annoying tweets from bozos declaring that if you don't emerge from lockdown having learned Esperanto, run a minute mile and...

Witty bon mots, quotidian anecdotes & comic news.

INTRODUCTION On telling my wife I was intending to start a newsletter she forewarned me to expect about five percent of people to actually read it. So, with...