As a classical scholar, [1] I have often pondered the eternal question why the once dominant Greek and Roman Empires both collapsed so quickly and so suddenly.

Time to drop a bombshell on my loyal blog readers – despite all appearances and everything you may read in the dead tree media or on-line, I’m not actually a fashionable guy.

On Friday 25 October 1415, the desperately outnumbered English army defeated a much larger French force at the Battle of Agincourt.

In 2003, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen briefly graced cinema screens around the world portraying a world of Victorian era superheroes fighting against the mysterious Fantom and his surprisingly high-tech army.

We are about to witness the greatest sports and entertainment spectacle of 2013. There will be huge hits, athleticism, strategy, speed, drama, colour, controversy, noise, music and the events that ultimately unfold on the playing field will become the stuff of legend.

On 29 October 2008, the very first words appeared on the Malthouse blog.  They were:

“Brewers are, on the whole, remarkable creatures.  From just toasted grain, the flower of a vine, ordinary water and a single-celled organism, they can produce delicious, sweet, life-giving beer.