There’s been a lot of talk lately of MCU style writing, meaning the kind of quip-filled dialogue which doesn’t take the story seriously. Cha...

Darth Vader did it. Then the Green Goblin . Now even Sauron has got in on the act. It’s one of the oldest tropes (or should that be clichés...

Funny how things get dredged up. I recently got to thinking about a very old idea of mine. I’ll tell you a bit later what jogged my memory....

If you hear that, it's a sign that your butler is a Parker rather than a Jeeves . Because, of course, it should be: ' Who shall I sa...

Here's a story by Anthony Trollope that originally appeared in  Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper  for October 1860. Like a lot of ...