Maturation (n): The process by which fruit ripens.

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I’m trying to get to an event. It’s an evening event, part work and part leisure, and I really want to get there, especially since it’s the first in a regular series which I am hoping to attend. It involves a very straightforward train journey – one stop down the line, just five minutes away, then a 20-minute wait, then a change onto a branch line. The whole journey should take 40 minutes and this will be the first time that I have made it.

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Roundel (n): A circular design for the purposes of decoration or identification.

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Here in the headquarters of the Constitutional Monarchy of Koningen der Nacht we are very much enjoying a new web-based game called Echo Bazaar, set in a version of London that has fallen through the earth and into Hell.

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Sick of being threatened with eternal damnation on your daily commute? Here’s your opportunity to strike back…

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Where are the limits of humour? And how to solve the perennially vexed question of good taste versus free speech – the one that caused the creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera such trouble? These are questions raised after a union representing Tube drivers announced it was planning to picket the premiere of a film that makes a joke of people falling under trains.

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