Nigeness

In times like these, I'm sure we all must feel the need from time to time to (in  Patrick Kurp 's words) 'address the charm, del...

I'm not planning to make 'Quote of the Day' a daily feature, but I couldn't resist this from the great American economist (a...

'Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.' Giacomo Leopardi, born on this day in 1798. Anyone who has sp...

Wading through 'my papers', I am reminded of how many of England's literary shrines I visited in the course of my hack work – so...

Shopping in Sainsburys just now, I was delighted to see that the Argos outlet there is now hung with rainbow-coloured bunting declaring that...

In the light of what's been going on lately on both sides of the Atlantic, it's instructive to read, in Jenny Uglow's excellent ...

To celebrate National Liberation Day – that happy day when the hygienists who now run the country decreed that, if we're very very good ...