As a self-employed writer, I don’t pay much attention to public holidays. Technically, I can have absolutely any given day off work but it is just that no one will pay me to do so.

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.