The Life and Opinions of Andrew Rilstone

So, Andrew, when are you going to start blogging again? Over the last few months of 2014 this blog was causing me more unhappiness than f...

Mulled wine; mulled cider; kittens; mince pies in the shape of Christmas trees; terrible, terrible Christmas records: these are a few of the...

you could probably still get a copy for Christmas, if you hurry i'll sign it for you if you ask me nicely...

If you purchase The Viewer's Complete Tale Do Balrogs Have Wings George and Joe and Jack and Bob (and me) Where Dawkins Went Wrong ...

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Some of you probably saw this. I was quite chuffed by it.

The Folk Buddies continue their autumnal debate on Fairy Tales. They consider invisible child murderers who walk through walls and ghosts ...

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Andrew and Clarrie start out having a serious discussion about the nature of fairy tales and the myth of Tam Lin, and end up bickering abo...

Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Will friendship and honour flourish on both sides the tweed? What do wester...

When I read on your blog "I have a friend who makes a point of reading stories against the grain" I thought: "Does he mean m...

The point of this article was that some people have said that they are not watching Doctor Who any more, and this annoyed me, and I am not s...

Q:  How do you know when someone doesn't own a television set? A: They tell you. Some time ago I achieved a point of serenity...

Do you ever try to imagine what the speaking voice of the person who writes all this nonsense sounds like? Do you ever confuse your genita...

The point of those articles was that someone said that they like a certain thing even though they thought it was terrible and I thought ...

work in progres No Hipsters. Don't be coming in hear with your hairy faces, your vegan diets, your tiny hands and your sawdust bedding...

work in progress 6 I have a friend who makes a point of reading stories against the grain. If it's a comic book about a hero w...

a work in progress 5 Some people would say that the writer who can write a 15 minute script which ends with the hero getting captur...

a work in progress 3 When someone claims to like bad books or bad movies, they are not using "bad" as a description of qu...

A work in progress dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for th...

Confused about your national identity? Reeling a bit after Last Night of the Proms? Wondering how George VII should style himself in a feder...

Many people think that "political correctness" means "politeness" or "inclusive language" or "avoiding wo...

The Rabbits of Watership Down are rabbits. They are as rabbitty as Richard Adams can make them. Everything they do is based on real rabbit b...