A collection of archival clips puts to shame a seedy corner of today's TV... I just caught a wonderful programme on BBC4. That's a sentence I could write a few times a week: the channel's worth the licence fee alone, unlike that nice Mr Attenborough who used to be, but has ... Read More...

Apparently this: 'every five thousand years the most capable member of a carefully selected alien race must impregnate the Bergs' beloved protoqueen' - doesn't cue up the most bizarre scene in the book. Daniel Kalder reviews an unmissable bande dessinée... There comes a point in every individual’s lifetime when he or she ... Read More...

Guest art reviewer Sophie Whenham admires a revival of traditional drawing techniques amongst some young British artists... A recent article by Jonathan Jones entitled Get up and demand better British art  prompted me to think about the contemporary art scene: for many people, so much of it is inaccessible, incomprehensible and unoriginal.  And the hysteria surrounding some exhibitions ... Read More...

Do you know absolutely nothing about tax? Don't worry, most 'experts' are the same, says Dabbler editor Brit... Is The Budget over yet? Specifically, the entirely misleading press coverage of George Osborne's announcements last Wednesday? Now I know a bit about tax, and by that I mean 'a bit' and no ... Read More...

Are you a memeber of the Dabbler Book Club yet? If not, you're missing out on the chance to get your hands on a free copy of some of the best new books on release. This month we're about to get stuck in to Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander, ... Read More...

The Epicurean Dealmaker writes anonymously, insightfully and wittily on the world of investment banking, the first because he works in the industry as a senior M&A banker. If you want to understand, and even find amusing, the rarefied and controversial world of high finance you won't do much better than ... Read More...

Brit enjoys the opening episodes of the latest Danish drama import Borgen, but worries that it might have already jumped the shark... Borgen, being on BBC Four (Saturday 9pm), Danish, and set in the world of media and politics, has inevitably got the Twitterati excited but the challenge for the reviewer ... Read More...

Daniel Kalder praises some German originals who seem to have sprung fully-formed from the head of Wotan. I first encountered Rammstein in an almost empty cinema on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street, during an afternoon matinee of the largely unloved David Lynch movie Lost Highway. Balthazar Getty had just broken into a house, ... Read More...

Steve Bruce, the former Manchester United player, was sacked as manager of Sunderland last week. Fortunately, Bruce has an alternative career to fall back on. Few people realise that a decade ago Bruce self-published two short football-based thrillers - sort of soccer-based versions of Dick Francis - entitled Striker! and Sweeper! (A proposed third instalment, Defender! ... Read More...

As the world’s population hits 7 billion, Brit finds David Attenborough celebrating Earth’s most anti-human places... There is no major problem facing our planet that would not be easier to solve if there were fewer people and no problem that does not become harder — and ultimately impossible to solve — ... Read More...