Nigeness

The Wednesday just past was the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's great March on Washington. Blogwise I missed the date, but caug...

'We cannot stand idly by.' Why is that whenever I hear this phrase, I think of the line from Beyond the Fringe, 'We need a futil...

As a pendant to last week's excursion into clog-dancing , here's another amazing dancer, of more recent vintage, in a joyous double ...

Thanks to what is I'm sure a most illuminating survey, we now know that middle age begins around 53, rather than the more traditional 41...

With heartfelt thanks to Arthur Ransome (see below) for the gift, I cannot resist posting Edward Thomas's How At Once - How at once shou...

Yesterday I saw what might well prove to be my last swifts of the summer - a pair, circling lazily over the road I live on, as if summer wer...

Dave Cameron and Bellicose Billy Hague seem to have convinced themselves it would be a capital wheeze to lob a few missiles into Syria and s...