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A very happy 2013 to all who browse here. May it be another year of wonders, great and small...

Well, what a year it's been... No, really - it has. Consider: It was the year of the London Olympics, an event greeted here on Nigeness...

Apologies for my unwontedly long absence from the Blog; I've been knocked out of action by what we doctors call a full-on stonking megab...

'Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it h...

I've written before about Lawrence Alma-Tadema ,'the worst painter of the 19th century' (according to Ruskin, never one to mince...

Over on The Dabbler, my piece on the Cotswold Olympic s has been posted. For reasons of space, my prophetic words on the then forthcoming Lo...

When I was a boy I had an old encyclopaedia with an illustration of the reconstructed Piltdown Man skull in it, presented as the key 'mi...