At lunchtime on the day before the Sunday People published pictures of Charles Saatchi engaging in ‘a playful tiff’ with his wife, I was standing at a market stall outside his magnificent art gallery in Chelsea, slurping down oysters laced with Tabasco. They were horribly delicious. I ate half a ... Read More...

In this week's delve into the weirder recesses of Wikipedia, the Wikiworm brings you a reminder of a once popular school boy song. Personally I used the third variation involving the Albert Hall... "Hitler Has Only Got One Ball" is a British song that mocks Nazi leaders by referring to their ... Read More...

This automated poetry-writing computer system is so good that most readers 'strongly prefer' its verses to those of Shakespeare. Or at any rate, that's what its creator claims. Jonathan Law investigates... On a bone-cold day in March the Wikiworm brought us some much needed cheer by digging out “The Bookseller/Diagram Prize ... Read More...

Porcine heroics are the order of the day for this installment of the Wikiworm, or possibly treachery, depending on which side you're on.. Tirpitz was a pig who switched sides in WW1, after he was captured from the German Navy following a naval skirmish. He subsequently became the mascot of the ... Read More...

In the true spirit of the Wikiworm Manifesto I decided this week to look into St Vitus' dance, which I had previously always thought to be a term for epilepsy. Turns out I was wrong again... St. Vitus' Dance was a social phenomenon that occurred in mainland Europe between the 14th ... Read More...