On 27 February 2013, Tuatara Belgian Tripel was officially launched to a salivating drinking public.  Or was it really? 

I was sitting on my usual seat at my usual table in the Malthouse the other day while drinking craft beer and talking animatedly about beer. 

As a classical scholar, [1] I have often pondered the eternal question why the once dominant Greek and Roman Empires both collapsed so quickly and so suddenly.

Time to drop a bombshell on my loyal blog readers – despite all appearances and everything you may read in the dead tree media or on-line, I’m not actually a fashionable guy.

On Friday 25 October 1415, the desperately outnumbered English army defeated a much larger French force at the Battle of Agincourt.

In 2003, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen briefly graced cinema screens around the world portraying a world of Victorian era superheroes fighting against the mysterious Fantom and his surprisingly high-tech army.