Being a fan of any genre means liking the mediocre stuff as well

Stephen King once made a good point about what it meant to be a horror fiction fan – you even enjoyed reading the bad stuff. (As a book of mine was among those he was reviewing in the article in which he shared this perception, my reactions were distinctly mixed.)

The Tory Right to Capt. Cameron: "Boil Your Head, mate!"

The moment David Cameron decided to try to bully his MPs into not rebelling over Europe was the day this Tory lost any vestige of respect he’d had for the Prime Minister as a man or as a politician. Politically, it was an enormously sill thing to do, and, on a personal level, it was the act of a very petty man.