Nigeness

 On this day in 1936 – 14 years after the publication of his Last Poems – A.E. Housman died in Cambridge at the age of 77. He was a relucta...

 I was thinking recently, as I browsed the shelves of my favourite charity bookshop, that it's about time I read a man's book. Anyon...

It's been good to see so many affectionate and admiring obituaries for Barry Humphries, who surely deserved them all. Many make referenc...

 Late in the day – too late to write much – I learn that it is the 150th anniversary, a big one, of the birth of the underrated (but often, ...

 Last night on BBC4 (the only TV channel that does anything to justify the licence fee), I watched a rather wonderful documentary from 1977 ...

 I was not looking forward at all to receiving the 3pm alarm that was supposed to be going out from somewhere within The Government to every...

 Sad to hear that Barry Humphries, that man of many parts (some of them rather revolting), has died. He had achieved a good age (89), but ev...