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If you haven’t been out in it, just looking out of the window you can’t have failed to have noticed that autumn is well and truly here. That lovely smell of old leaves, the colours, and all the windy weather, ahh just great. It’s not too hot for a really long cycle-ride and not too cold to freeze the balls of a brass monkey (as they say...).

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Art? It's just child's play

6:07pm Friday 14th November 2008

But is it art? That’s what I asked myself while attending a recent exhibition of works by young artists. And when I say ‘artists’, I am of course referring to the kind that have just left art or design college.

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The mystery of the Unicorn

6:01pm Thursday 13th November 2008

According to Moses in that bestseller, The Holy Bible, the horns of Joseph are like unicorns – mysterious and limited in availability.

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The Insider

6:12pm Wednesday 12th November 2008

Because councils come up with the most wonderful — and impractical — ideas we are sure, somewhere in every town and county hall, there is a Department for You Couldn’t Make It Up.

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Watch out, there's bike theft about

5:49pm Monday 10th November 2008

As I was cycling to Amit and Ajay’s on Sunday morning to get some eggs and milk, I passed a scene of considerable consternation outside a large student house on Cowley Road. They were remonstrating and pointing at the wall beneath the front bay window. I deciphered the giant-scissor chopping motions from one student and understood the violent ripping action enacted by another.

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Man's guide to shopping

6:56pm Friday 7th November 2008

Is anything more pitiful than watching men wait patiently outside department store dressing rooms for their girlfriends to emerge, chrysalis-like, from last season’s clothes into this season’s must-have wardrobe?

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Cabbages & Kings

6:29pm Thursday 6th November 2008

Thecamera crew seemed bent on self-destruction, standing as it did in the middle of High Street, while buses, vans and cars passed inches from the tripod.

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The Insider

6:28pm Wednesday 5th November 2008

IAN Hudspeth’s feathers were well and truly ruffled when we pointed out last week how it appeared a little odd that in literature pumped out to promote the long-term vision of pedestrianising Oxford, a picture of a bus appeared.

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Fresh start to cycling in city

6:11pm Monday 3rd November 2008

Going through town the other day I noticed lots of ‘Freshers’ (first year students) about.

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Mystery of maths

7:32pm Thursday 30th October 2008

Mathematics was always a mystery. Despite the hair-tearing efforts of Caradoc Williams, a teacher now performing in that great Eisteddfod in the sky, I absorbed nothing of Pythagoras or his chums.

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The mystery of maths

7:11pm Thursday 30th October 2008

Mathematics was always a mystery. Despite the hair-tearing efforts of Caradoc Williams, a teacher now performing in that great Eisteddfod in the sky, I absorbed nothing of Pythagoras or his chums. All I remember is that in algebra there was a thing called the constant – something he declared, with Welsh drama, existed in every aspect of life.

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