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Paula Radcliffe for taking a dump during the marathon, and then coming to terms with the fact that it would be the number one talking point of her career from then on.

Given a few weeks to get to grips with the variables, I bet Federer, Nadal and Djokovic would be able to compete as a world-class volleyball players. I doubt the reverse is true.

Here, here! I get the feeling that a lot of minority sports are only played by people who weren't very good at the major sports as kids. So a lot of the volleyball players are basically second-rate tennis players who couldn't get into the team when they were a kid, so decided to compete in an...

Both Sun and Mirror have cut-out Bradley Wiggins sideburns on their front pages today. Just shows that the 'public imagination' isn't really that imaginative. He can grow facial hair and ride a bike fast. Oooh!

Rick Dewsbury has quickly shut down his Twitter account. Something tells me this article is going to get the Mail into a lot of shit. Even Mail readers in the comments below the article are horrified, which makes sense, since the Mail's predominantly older readership relies on the NHS even more...

I like the fact that the first Google search result for Rick Dewsbury (the author of that Mail article) is this: http://johnjosephwilliamson.com/2012/07/28/press-complaints-commission-rick-dewsbury-article/ I don't see the point of opening or closing ceremonies.

So... anyone read anything by William Vollmann? Or, more to the point, has anyone read a lot, or even all of Vollmann's published work? The Atlas is excellent, if he indulges his love of loquacious descriptions of views from train windows a little too much.

Stars of a very good music documentary playing Albert Hall in September. Definitely gonna try see this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2012/september-06/14338

This is amazing: looks similar to what happened at Bloc, although they just about managed to hold this together til the end.

Francis Spufford teaches at Goldsmiths, which I will be attending next year. Will probably check out Red Plenty.

My number one favourite dish to cook, though, is lemon-flavoured rice with vegetables, feta cheese and smoked salmon. It's very easy. Fry your veg (onion, red pepper, courgette) in garlic. Cook your rice in vegetable stock, with a whole lemon chopped up and thrown in. When it's done, mix the...

I cooked something very similar just the other week. Although I marinated the chicken in yoghurt and mint to begin with then whacked it in the oven. Twas very tasty.

People don't tend to include goalkeepers in the lists of best players in the world, or haven't since Peter Schmiechel pretty much won the European Championship for Denmark. But I would go as far as to say Petr Cech is one of the best players in the world. He's been incredible for Chelsea since...

After loving Short Cuts and The Long Goodbye, can't wait to see Nashville by Altman. Luckily, it's available here:

I went to see China Mieville and Iain Sinclair talk about the Olympic legacy at the Stoke Newington literary festival at the weekend. It was very good, although there wasn't much 'debate'; just one damning analysis after another. Not sure if this is true or not -- it seems a bit far fetched to...

The script for Blue Remembered Hills wasn't very good. The TV show wasn't great (it had John Bird, he of Bremner, Bird... fame playing a nine-year-old). But our version kicked ass. If only they'd let me throw some D12 into the mixer...

‎"I have grave doubts that my wife will ever get a fair trial, given the volume of biased commentary which she has been subject to." Charlie Brooks. I wonder what Chris Jefferies, or as the Sun referred to him, "The Strange Mr Jefferies" has to say about that.

I was in a school production of Blue Remembered Hills. That was a TV show where a bunch of kids in wartime Devon lost their innocence. The kids were played by adults. Not great. During rehearsals my plea to include a musical interlude where the cast sung this: was repeatedly vetoed.

Carnal Knowledge by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel (!) A brilliantly executed tale of two guys who basically spend the whole film talking about chasing tail. Hard to believe that some cinema owners were arrested for screening it when it came out in 1971. There's a...

She's being grilled like a piece of cheap meat. And that's appropriate. I can't be the only one who thinks when this is all wrapped up, the Leveson Inquiry would make a great DVD. Three hours of your favourite villains being subjected to intense scrutiny under oath! Roll up! Roll up! It would...