Further is the new album by The Chemical Brothers.

Can't rank their albums. This is just another thing they did that is essential: to listen to.

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Saw them a long time ago at Manchester Apollo; bass so loud/deep throats were constricting and people were carried out.

A mix of New Age mysticism and Catholicism without the fun bits like aliens and hell.

One of the good things about US tv shows used to be that the UK was always a couple of seasons behind; this meant that if a plot seemed manipulative - with too many pointless mysteries, crass cliffhangers and characters dying just before they could impart answers - one could simply look at the episode recaps on US websites and find out what happens in the future. Like skipping to the last page of the book, this would divest the viewer of any compulsion to fritter away years of life watching tv.

Last night, me, the wife, her dad went to the Sheldonian in Oxford to watch a debate between Christopher Hitchens and John Haldane.

Hitchens is a seasoned (mainly salty) debater and talking head for anti-religious stuff; he recurs on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO saying religion is, like, really awful. John Haldane is a Papist philsopher lecturer at St Andrews University.