I received a book in the mail this week. Nothing unusual about that even though I do try to buy…
It was the Gert Loveday review of Rancid Pansies (it’s an anagram) that set me off to read James Hamilton-Paterson’s…
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow." You may not remember…
One Last week IntrepidEd News published another of my pieces. This one is about how schools are on the front…
I'm launched on a Wittgenstein project. I thought it was about time I knew more about him and his work…
On 14 June 1940, Paris fell to the German Army. The British author Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote in her diary.…
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked. “Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “we’re…
I chanced upon this painting of the meeting between Galileo and John Milton and had a flashback to undergraduate days…
It's London in wartime, in the blackout before the Blitz and the streets of Soho are full of characters straight…
Based on his published letters,1940 was a busy year for T.S.Eliot. He was based in London and working at Faber…