The march against the cuts has garnered the usual press coverage.  250 thousand people converge on the capital for a day of peaceful and fun...

New series of 10 Essential Tools for world domination coming soon: 1)  HUMANSCALE LIBERTY CHAIR 2)  MAGNETIC WHITEBOARD The great boo...

Now I really understand the kind of community that read this blog.  The most popular post is about...A CHAIR!  Mind you it's a very nice...

Sleeping It Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler – review Guardian Books http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/19/sleeping-it-o...

I think I have applied mediation type skills over the past twenty five years of my career both as a social worker and for the past fifte...

So here goes. We need to redress the balance between cuts and tax rises (currently 3:1)(3), as fairly as possible. That means starting wit...

Audio book 'Silence' by Shusaku Endo-  Available on Audible.  Like Brian Moore's 'Black robe' and due (according to The ...

THEMES OF A LOST LIGHTBRINGER First, there is the forgetting. This allows the unfolding, the fracturing to begin. This forgettin...

The impact of the comprehensive spending review and the proposed cuts in state spending of, in some cases 8% reductions year on year for...

Suzi Feay's Book Bag: books on planes : "Long haul flights always used to involve, for me, a bag full of books just to get me throu...

So this hiatus between Christmas and New Year?  A toe might be dipped back into the work world but it’s not really serious.  This is an in...

First there is the song of WAR that rises, boils, and gurgles in the pumping blood. Sing O Argives cross the dusty plains of Troy a shou...

An extremely lightweight and stylish steed noticed recently in a London street.

BLUE HALLOWEEN The village store has, just this minute, closed. It’s drawbridge has gone up-portcullis down. An aproned granny smirks b...

A very long time ago way way back before iphones and Nintendo's and electric cars, and Tony Blur, I used to live in...Blackpool.  Yes, t...

A few months ago I remember reading in the London Review of Books an article by August Kleinzahler fulminating in a mouth-foamingly hostile ...

Yes it's true, after a string of heartbreaking No 1 hits and a five year domination of the album charts with such essential rockers as ...

TONIGHT MY HEAVING HEART Tonight my heaving heart has laid me low and shudders in the holes of its dark cave. The fractured rhythm ...

In August 2005 we went to Cornwall on holiday and visited Crackington Haven on the day of the Boscastle floods. It never appeared on the new...

Indeed a lie is a lie is a lie.  But some lies change the very substance of how we see the world and all that is in it.  Some lies corrode o...

From George Monbiot's blog: The Process Is Dead Posted: 20 Sep 2010 12:07 PM PDT It's already clear that the climate t...

Indeed palms beneath our feet and hosanna's ringing in the air?  I think not.  As we disembarked the ferry at Weymouth in the early hour...

Peter's Lamb Curry (from Jamie's book The Return of the Naked Chef) - serves 8. 2 tablespoons butter 2 x 400g tins of chopped tom...