Nigeness

 Radio 3 this morning was getting very excited about Radio  6 Music's T-Shirt Day (not to be confused with International T-Shirt Day or ...

 Here are the 'always excellent Dick Davis ' and the 'right decent geezer' Samuel Johnson back already. Davis is writing (t...

 'Natural rights is simple nonsense,' declared Jeremy Bentham: 'natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense – nonsen...

 Having spent too long reading little but non-fiction (much of it for review), I turned back to fiction recently, reading  A Wreath of Roses...

 Time for a poem.     Here is one by the always excellent Dick Davis, about a situation every parent – and grandparent – will be familiar wi...

 The day before yesterday I was walking around the Samuel Johnson birthplace museum with my brother and walking friends (their first time, a...

 Yesterday I finally made it to London for a much postponed lunch with an old friend and a visit to the Whistler exhibition at Tate Britain ...