Better late that never, I suppose: here’s my interview with Radio New Zealand from the end of last month/year.

At the Feeling Listless blog, coverage of the Noughties book (fair point about the Rage vs Joe confrontation) and the History of Now TV sh...

Said I might reappear. You can now read the full text of the Prospect piece , plus some YouTubey bells and whistles, even if you’re not a su...

A few months before the Noughties began, I was walking down Las Ramblas in Barcelona with my then boss, and he started talking and chuckling...

Forget all those best book, best film, best album polls: Glastonbury supremo Michael Eavis has seen off Fidel Castro and Monty Panesar to be...

Well, my rant against small children on TV talent shows didn’t make it to the final cut of The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties (tonight ...

Hoping the last Christmas of the Noughties is good for you all. See you on the other side.

AA Gill in the Sunday Times defines the Noughties as the age of the amateur: “Reality” grew to mean a particular type of closely choreograp...

Had completely overlooked these kind words from the big cheese of book blogging, Scott Pack, who suggests that The Noughties “might make a ...

Perhaps we should just call the decade unnerving or unsettling or even unhinged. —The BBC’s Matt Frei puts the Noughties to bed .