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Keep moaning - it's good for you

3:06pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

I read something wonderful on the weekend; something that I’ve suspected for a while may be the case. It’s based on research from Harvard University by boffins whose brains are so big they can’t wear hats.

Do you r8 txt speak?

4:37pm Tuesday 26th January 2010

When you write text messages, or send a message on Facebook or Twitter, do you use “text speak” or do you use “proper English?”

Do you look good enough to be a writer?

12:50pm Friday 22nd January 2010

YOU may recall I wrote about Twitter last week and while checking through the latest tweets earlier today I came across a lady called Tracey Williams who also goes by the name of “The Naked Welsh Writer”.

Steve is coming home

Steve is coming home

4:59pm Friday 15th January 2010

AS seen on Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and as support to Lee Mack, talented Newport comedian Steve Williams hits the road with his debut national stand-up comedy tour.

Merton gets improvising

Paul Merton is at Fairfield Halls on May 12

2:50pm Friday 15th January 2010

ONE of the UK’s best loved comedians Paul Merton visits Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre for the first time as part of a UK tour.

Chris is in the thick of it

Comedian Chris Addison is at the Electric Palace

12:59pm Friday 15th January 2010

CHRIS Addison from the BBC’s superb Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick Of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up.

I am now one of the Twitterati

9:50am Wednesday 13th January 2010

Checking back over some old columns I’ve found out it’s exactly a year ago since I wrote about Twitter for the first time.

Year of milestones

9:30am Friday 8th January 2010

HOPE you had a great Christmas and New Year and as quickly as it arrived, it was over. So it’s back to business as we get used to 2010.

Snub the Facebook chart campaign this Christmas

9:30am Thursday 17th December 2009

You may remember this time last year when a bunch of unhappy people got a Facebook campaign going to stop Alexandra Burke reaching number one at Christmas with “Hallelujah”.

All Sky+ed out

2:59pm Thursday 10th December 2009

I have a mission, which I have chosen to accept.




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