Ok back to business after that brief family and friends jokery. And the business today is law and the family. Should journalists be allowed ...

And a woman who held a babe against her breast said; Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are th...

They may look like a very attractive but otherwise ordinary couple. In fact these two people currently going by the names of Wilmerovsky an...

Click on the title to read this timely article from prospect magazine about deep viral mining.

I wrote this poem after reading 'The True History of The Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey and it is dedicated to him.  I threw out the ...

I don't know what you think of them.  Are they really encoded messages from super intelligent alien races?  I certainly hope so but...wh...

Clink on link to see excellent obituary from Will Self on the great man.

Do you ever find yourself in a city, alone and at a loose end with a couple of hours to kill? I sometimes do and it was on just such an occ...

You remember how in that great scene from 'Citizen Kane' the glass snow jar thing (what are those things called?) slips from Kane...

So why write a blog when nobody apparently actually reads it? Well just occasionally you just gotta get down and boogy man! And screw the...

UTTERING THE WORDS OF LIFE Last night when I licked the wet walls of your mouth’s cave, nibbled the sweet shells of your ears, palpa...

Picture by David Martin Returning back to places from your past can be a bit like trying to squeeze into an old suit. Not only is it ou...

Unbelievable but true. I say it again-if Bush and Blair don't stand trial for their crimes then 'it makes me feel ashamed to live i...

A terrible thought occurs walking to work. My comment in an article that 'if the universe is a tree then poetry is the sound of the wind...

Just occasionally (more often than occasionally lately) you see them shed the outer shell to reveal their true hideous Selves beneath. On ...

A lot of my friends are initially surprised to know that one of my professional strands is as a Life and Productivity Coach. I don't kno...

Whitbarrow is a beautiful limestone moorland between the English Lake District National Park and the horseshoe of Morecambe Bay. Beautiful ...

My immaterial factoid of the month is the insight that BOVRIL is made up of two words BOVINE and VRIL. Bovine as you obviously know refers ...

I love this little oriental form with a syllable count of 5-7-5. It's becoming increasingly popular in the West and these little seeds ...

So what’s new? The financial scam continues with the collapse of various off shore mis-trust funds and disbelief that Gordon Brown wants to...

;-)> I am sexed-up by these spring winds Unslaked like a gagged wolf beneath A moon white as bone while women Of all nations hang on...

Oh no it's politics again! Sorry, I really am but JESUS CHRIST! It really is time to get this rag tag bunch of bandits out of our parlia...

The last few years have seen an unprecedented assault on the liberties we all take for granted in a democratic society. The rights to equal...

I intended to write some occasional reviews of books here but am recently thinking that critics are the unmentionable bits that hang from th...

First George, As your knuckles scrape along the dusty road back to your Texan ranch think on this: How do you imagine history, that establ...

Howard Jacobson ‘The Act of Love.’ Jonathan Cape 2008 The premise is that we, that is, men, are all of the tribe of Masoch or De Sade a...

INTERIORITY COMPLEX The writer and the monk are kin. Both look into the mystery From a lonely space. Both strip the flesh from Already skinn...

‘ISIS ASTARTE DIANA HECATE DEMETER KALI INANNA.’ So goes the famous Goddess chant but where is her voice to be heard? Where is the vo...

When your man-child approaches you urgently and says 'Dad, I need you to explain existentialism to me,' you realise with a flash of...