Reflections

On going vegan

On going vegan

  The following was written as an open letter to be read out to an initial meeting of the 'Vegan Info and Social...

Ambiguous Words

Ambiguous Words

I have decided to start a series of Tweets containing glosses on (to me) interestingly ambiguous words (mainly...

Whistlejacket Forever

Whistlejacket Forever

    It’s called a levade, when horses rear in art. He’s an Arab, so it fits - from the land of rising suns....

Two Ways of Seeing Things

Two Ways of Seeing Things

Maya Plisetskaya in the 1974 Russian Anna Karenina   ‘Видите ли, на одну и ту же вещь можно смотреть трагически и...

Marriage a la Mode

Marriage a la Mode

This article was published by the December 2015 edition of Standpoint magazine here. What follows is a pre-edited...

Cambridge Revisited

Cambridge Revisited

  It’s a whole genre of experience, revisiting your university town after a gap of years.   Last weekend I...

Reader, I married him

Reader, I married him

This article is a pre-edited version of an article published here in the October 2015 edition of Literary Review....

On Friendship

On Friendship

As today is the name’s day of a friend, I am reflecting on friendship.   Friend is often betrayed when...

Helen Bamber

Helen Bamber

  Helen Bamber died two days ago. She was a founder member of Amnesty International, co-founder of The Medical...

Catherine Brown