Nigeness

Tomorrow morning, if all goes to plan, Mrs Nige and I will be boarding the Eurostar and heading, ultimately, for the city of Tours. We shall...

Palgrave's Golden Treasury is probably the most famous poetry anthology of them all (unless it's the rather less widely read Greek ...

I caught a bit of of Drugs Live: The Ecstasy Trial, Channel 4's much-hyped 'experiment' with MDMA, on TV last night. What a rum ...

Born on this day in 1872 was the American writer and attorney Max Ehrmann, one of those cases - like Joseph Blanco White - of a writer reme...

The sparrows are back! At least, they were this morning. I looked blearily out of the window at the dripping garden, and there was a fine ma...

I wouldn't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure there is only one case of an estate agent fathering a giant of English letters. Edward C...

It's always good to come across a new word, especially if it has some music in it, and depths of meaning. Today I happened upon 'q...