One of the most depressing things about the current season of political stumping in the USA is the mindless nature of so much of the discourse. The recent sight of the unbearably self-important and ill-informed Bill O'Reilly and the overwheeningly self-righteous and equally ignorant Whoopi Goldberg...

Other than the sackloads of requests that ref21 should `Fire Levy Now!' (you hum it; we'll try to play it), many others have been asking if we can provide insights into the man behind the recent spate of blogposts that seem to have been drawn directly from Finnegans Wake . So, for your edification...

So Levy is still crowing over the `Rumble in the Rhondda'? Any fair minded viewer will see that the ref, C J Mahaney, should never have given me the standing count at that point. The bout was clearly fixed by the Tafia.

....but a dream within a dream. So wrote Poe, words that have a peculiar relevance, given all the oohing and aahing about the profile of Al Mohler in Christianity Today . Some have felt the need to make it clear that Dr Mohler does not represent them as evangelicals; others have pointed towards the...