if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

It was the Lord Mayor's Carol Service Thursday evening, and they turned the lights on in St Lawrence Jewry, so they could move stuff aro...

This is a bus-stop and sign on a journey I make around once-a-week, and have been for years. Suddenly it became a photograph. The subject i...

I read James Wallman’s book on how we can improve the way we use our spare time, and in putting some remarks together, kept going off at a t...

Some philosophers are obsessed by death, seeing it as some kind of defining event in the human condition, but more than that, as a kind of s...

I got this one from the penultimate episode of Fog and Crimes S2. The ageing Police Commissioner of Ferrara tells his wayward-yet-brilliant ...

My Dutch friend and I are pondering a problem. It’s one of those you-wait-until-you-get-to-our-age problems, so I don’t expect you to unders...

Thank you for your e-mail. I’m aware that when you took the crime report on Friday morning, I was still upset from the events of Thursday ev...