poetry

About Suffering They Were Never Wrong

About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place…

8 years ago

Treasons Greetings: The Ghosts of Happy Holidays Past

It's politically incorrect to say Happy Holidays these days. We must all say Merry Christmas. No word on the acceptability…

8 years ago

The Great Unleaving: When Life Throws Rhubarb on your Custard

I left full-time employment at the end of June with a grand plan of doing nothing. After 45 years in…

8 years ago

Breaking News: USA Today Did NOT Break the Trump Lawsuit Story. Here’s Who Did.

On November 25, 2016, the New York Times Editorial Board issued a blistering editorial entitled “Donald Trump and the Lawsuit…

8 years ago

Goodbye to all that

The first day of my new life as an idle good-for-nothing superannuated coffin-dodger (my brother's description of retirees) coincides with…

8 years ago

The Barrage Lifts

After forty five years it's time to re-wire! And the start of my re-wirement coincides with the centenary of the…

8 years ago

Unreal City: November 11th 1919

London on November 11th 1919 - a two minute silence at 11 o'clock to observe the first anniversary of the…

9 years ago

On the Magic Carpet

A simple Sunday night tweet from a PDS English teacher is enough to fire up the engine on the magic…

10 years ago

This is Genius

Video well worth watching:

10 years ago

School Leadership: Working Together and Birds in Flight

Have you ever seen a ton of starlings or red-wing blackbirds swooping about in unison as if they were in…

10 years ago

Paper Cuts: Josh at the Sewing Machine

The first day of alleged spring and another day disrupted by the rituals and routines of early dismissal. By  mid…

10 years ago

The Night Mail

This is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters…

10 years ago

Modern Learning and the Shock of the New

Here's something terrific for free: It's an E-book of great articles from the always useful Educating Modern Learners, an online…

10 years ago

Every time I fail

There was a lively Twitter #satchat this morning and the topic was that fad du jour: Failure. There were plenty…

10 years ago

A Darkling Year or Joy Illimited.

BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…

11 years ago