Nigeness

In church this Easter morning (my first visit, I fear, since last Easter, but I was ill at Christmas), the reader of the prayers suffered a ...

Over on Anecdotal Evidence, Patrick Kurp notes that today is the centenary of the birth of R.S. Thomas. The Welsh are marking the occasion ...

A sunny morning - though still unseasonally cold - and, as I walked along the path beside the railway track on my way to the station, came a...

The decision by David Milliband , brother of Labour leader Ed, to take a new job heading up International Rescue exposes a deep ideological...

Over on the Dabbler, I consider the strange case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton - who, oddly, has come up elsewhere recently. A Bulwer-Lytton rev...

Two great poets were born on this day - A.E. Housman in 1859 and Robert Frost in 1874. Let us first look around  - and forward - with Frost...

It's hard to credit this story , but it does appear to be true, and those tireless newshounds of the BBC News website have worked hard t...