The human world grows more frightening, and those who rule it more unabashedly ugly, by the hour. All the more vital that we meditate in whatever ways work best for us on the beauty of life itself. On the lovely … Read More »
The Telegraph yesterday, August 27: Sir Alexander McCall Smith has criticised the “censoring” of children’s books by authors such as Roald Dahl and Enid Blyton, arguing that they presented a “sanitised world view”. McCall Smith, who is best known for … Read More »
Norman Finkelstein is not one for mincing words. That doesn’t make him a motor-mouthed rabble rouser. Far from it, and it’s a point I’ll return to in a moment, the research on which his conclusions are based is never less … Read More »
As a non-musical lover of music I’m a sucker for those who can show me, at the technical level of their construction, how the songs that move me actually work. And I’ve as big an appetite as the next guy … Read More »
Many of us ask ourselves, “what would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow south? Or apartheid? what would i do if my country was committing genocide?” Well the answer is, you’re doing it. Right … Read More »
I visit Facebook maybe thrice a decade but yesterday a link took me to this, posted two months ago. Disregarding the fact no source is given for its figures, does anything strike you as weirdly awry here? Gob-smackingly specious, even? … Read More »
Roll over, Nick Park! Here’s the Mail Online yesterday: Other British media ran with the same. If you’re not bored already, click on the screenshots to see how each covered it. Heartwarming to see such foul racism garnering the righteous … Read More »
Dunwich Woodbridge Bait digger at Martlesham Creek’s entry to the Deben Estuary Aldeburgh Aldeburgh Looking north from Aldeburgh to Sizewell B nuclear power station, top left Aldeburgh Dunwich Dunwich Aldeburgh Dunwich Anne died on her 70th. Remembered on a bench … Read More »
The Starbucks on York’s Coney Street looks out over that pedestrian walkway to take in the ancient church of St Martin le Grand opposite. Beyond that runs the River Ouse. Should you be passing by, have a butcher’s. A row … Read More »
Approaching Oban on the ferry from Mull * * *