A Reflection on the Month just Gone and Surviving the Next! Month one of lockdown is behind us. But the world, far from being brave…
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14 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About the Ides of March “Beware the Ides of March,” warned the soothsayer to Julius Caesar. At least, that’s…
Leave a CommentMusic’s Ever-Shifting Soundscape “I can’t possibly go back to CDs!” This is what I heard myself wail, panic stricken, as my much-loved iPod Classic finally…
Leave a CommentLooking Forward to Looking Back As plenty of people have been at pains to point out over the last few weeks, 2020 is not in…
Leave a CommentChristmas Traditions If ever there is a month associated with tradition, it is December, dominated as it is by the repeated patterns of Christmas. Whether…
Leave a CommentIt’s November 1st, and until very recently much of Britain believed it would be waking up to a new dawn, a new and scary dawn…
Leave a CommentIt’s October and that means many things. Pumpkins won’t just find their way into soups and stews but out onto window ledges and doorsteps. Questionable…
Leave a CommentA Book About Trees At the risk of sounding like an M&S advert, this is not just a novel, this is Richard Powers’ ‘The Overstory’–and…
Leave a CommentTHE POLITICS OF LIFE Apart from fumbling through a mediocre degree in Politics and History many, many moons ago, and a brief dalliance with the…
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