Nigeness

Born on this day in 1803 was the death-obsessed poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes (son of the founder of the fun-loving Pneumatic Institute ). He s...

'We know you better than you know yourself' declared Amazon in their latest email to me. Well, that's a bold claim, even for Ama...

Yesterday, unaccountably, I missed a momentous 50th anniversary - that of the first use of a bank cash machine (in Enfield, by cockney twink...

My church crawling took a new turn over the weekend when, with my cousin, I visited this one - Lud's Church in Staffordshire. Hidden a...

Here's Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, quoting John Lennon's Imagine today, a propos his dream of a repentant UK se...

Having made a fine job of cataloguing some 210,000 paintings in public collections in the UK - many of them in store or otherwise unavailabl...

I was delighted to come across this story - not only because it contradicts the received (wishful?) thinking that church congregations are ...