Ever listen to The Moral Maze, the BBC Radio 4, Michael Buerk-chaired ‘discussion’ program, featuring intellectuals arguing over the ethicality of topical issues? It’s sometimes rather snooty; cantankerous types picking […]

Not so much ‘one of those days’, rather one of those weeks. It started last weekend when I checked the date for the Rich Hall gig, which I ‘knew’ was […]

Track 2 of Black Sabbath’s third album, 1971’s Master of Reality, is a song entitled After Forever_, which, if you’re unfamiliar with its authors and were to read its lyrics […]

This morning I was E-mailed the following information: Investment advice …. Strange but true! If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be […]

The ice machine-chilled fizzy stuff was cracked open yesterday for celebrating a colleague’s successful Ph.D. viva (congratulations, ‘Dr. Perrett’), and, somehow, the chat turned to observations I’ve been mentally post-it-noting. […]

Since listening to Stephen Pound MP on the news the other evening, I’ve been looking for an excuse to apply the word caliginosity. Why? Because it is one of a […]

… aka. Tony Blair today kicks off his new teaching career at Yale. It might require a politician to deal with some of the questions he’ll likely encounter. But he’s […]

I had cause to travel up to Leicester last weekend for family reasons, and was there presented with a saved cutting from the local organ, the Leicester Mercury, consisting of […]