Friday, 31 August 2012

Misty and the season of mists

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Our Scottish break kept up its cultural joys for us, when we went into the John Muir house in Dunbar. That’s Muir as in Muir Woods, for thos...
Wednesday, 29 August 2012

The glory of the Cameron government is all Latin to me

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One of the glorious triumphs of the present British government is the introduction of so-called free schools. These schools are free in the...
Monday, 27 August 2012

Getting culturally improved in the Athens of the North

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One of the great advantages of visiting Edinburgh at this time of year is being able to take advantage of the Festival, or more particularly...
Saturday, 25 August 2012

After the Olympics: why break up Britain?

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Took a trip yesterday which might, in a couple of years, involve a border crossing. Possibly. Though probably not.  We took a northbound t...
Wednesday, 22 August 2012

The making of an unexpected warrior

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Amazing the things that float to the surface when you move house. Some years ago I started to make an album of photographs I inherited from...
Monday, 20 August 2012

Julian Assange: tragic hero for our times

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By tradition a tragic hero is a man (less frequently a woman) with the qualities for greatness, brought low by some flaw in his personality:...
Friday, 17 August 2012

Save us all from lazy politics

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‘Law and sausage,’ said Otto von Bismarck, ‘are two things you do not want to see being made’. Making law is by far the easier, which is wh...
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