Welcome to the first installment in what is likely to be a very sporadic series. As you've probably guessed by now, I have a tendency to...

I’m sorry, I just could not resist that headline. Whilst working a locum shift the other week, I noticed a couple of new products had l...

Ahh. Sunday mornings. They can mean only one thing: bacon. Okay, two things: bacon and tea Whoops, no let's make that three things: baco...

Imagine there is a door in front of you. There is a person standing next to the door:         "Hey there, pudgy, do you want to be t...

You might have noticed that Holland and Barrett, the high street's most proliferative purveyor of pointless supplements, homeopathic, an...

If you're buying a new TV, how do you go about it? My guess is that you probably have a look around the shops or internet, find a model ...

The media is raving about it. Waif-like celebrities like Demi Moore are swallowing it like there's no tomorrow. Any internet search resu...

The sad news about Iain Banks has gotten me thinking today. I'll be honest here and say I've never read any of his books (so many ...

A good friend of mine is really into running, and has many half-marathons, kilomathons, and marathons under his belt (at least one of which ...

I'm still pretty new to this skepticism thing, but I'm starting to become immune to the bog-standard nonsense claims that I see home...

Hi all, It's lovely for once to be able to write about something that works, instead of something which has little to no evidence of i...

There's been a lot of press attention in recent days about the case of  Neon Roberts, whose mother had apparently ran away with him in ...