An interview with Victor Olliver .

The new Independent editor Chris Blackhurst can't be all bad. He has actually run a fair interview with social media pariah (du jour) Jo...

Dear Madame Arcati I have just returned from an intoxicating period in Turin and, since you have an Italian name and also an interest in m...

When a Jehovah's Witness rings my bell, I make certain he or she sees me through a window before I go about my business and decline to c...

The Moon in Me Me Me The witty topical TV quiz Have I Got News For You? this week had Andy Hamilton suggest that, if The Sun closes dow...

Duncan Fallowell back in the 1970s Lovers of krautrock awake! Spoon Records and Mute are bringing out a 40th anniversary edition of the c...

Britain's most wonderful gosser, the Evening Standard 's Londoner's Diary, sweetly mentions the Madame Arcati blog (what a commo...

My permanent fiancee Molly Parkin shared this story with me the other day and I felt it only right to give it the wider dissemination it des...

Kirk Douglas by Darrell Robinson aka Wooden Horse There's no point moaning about my non-attendance or imagining that I'm dying o...

A learned writer calling himself or herself Fake Daniels recently commented on actress Susan Penhaligon's poetry - his or her critique b...

The actress and writer Susan Penhaligon - best known for her starring role as Prue in Bouquet of Barbed Wire  and for appearances in many ot...

Darling poet Michael Horovitz - a still potent septuagenarian - invites you to join him and a clutch of lyrical luminaries at his Poetry Oly...