Nigeness

I feel as if I ought to be saying something about the Damian Green affair - Bryan has - but, as so often these days, I'm so comprehensi...

This is an interesting project (go to White on Brunel, under Projects, for the slideshow)... There's an extraordinary beauty about t...

Randy Newman - no stranger to this blog - is 65 today. Another of those birthdays that make you suddenly feel that bit older yourself... He...

William Blake was born on this day in 1757. Like Samuel Beckett, he seems to remember and rue the occasion ... Here's an anecdote abou...

Apparently there's a shortage of mycologists developing in this country, as the fungi experts are mostly nearing retirement age, and yo...

That supersmooth purveyor of the higher nonsense Alain de Botton has been at it again . Clearly he's all for the art of conversation ...

There cannot be much wrong, I reckon, with a country whose defining national celebration is not some grand affirmation of its own glory but...