Tough business being a writer. Our editors have promised us a 100 percent pay increase if we win a Bloggie in March, but even that won’t cover the cost of our pub outings. Still, if now’s the moment of truth, kids, when you choose prose or poetry as the more lucrative career path, note the following. When A.L. Kennedy won the Costa Book of the Year award on Tuesday for her novel Day, she......

Dum dum dum, dum dum dum. Dum dum dum, dum dum dum... ...Doodle-oo, doodle-oo, doodle-oo. DADUM! Lalo Schifrin has nothing on us! What do you mean you didn't recognise that as the Mission:Impossible theme? It's not our fault that the internet is unable to translate our unique phonetic musical notation. Just deal with it ok! Let's try some algebra instead: TC + PSH + JJ = M:I III. And if you're Rob Hanks writing......

Tom Cruise IS coming to London: Tom Cruise will meet fans at the London premiere of Mission Impossible 3 on Tuesday after a last-minute decision not to return to his new child. The star was in Rome on Monday for the world premiere, telling reporters he would fly straight back to be with fiancee Katie Holmes and daughter Suri. It was only yesterday that we said the premiere was going to be a bit......