Deus ex machina
Mark Zuckerberg says that Facebook could be to its users what churches are to congregations: it could help them feel…
Got the message?
To cut to the chase, my ten-year-old daughter really liked Beauty and the Beast. And given you’re probably going to…
Reason and faith
Roy Hattersley would never have been born had it not been that his mother ran away with the parish priest…
Against Queen Camilla
How would you feel about a Queen Camilla, as in the wife of King Charles? Personally I’d be dead against,…
Against Queen Camilla
How would you feel about a Queen Camilla, as in the wife of King Charles? Personally I’d be dead against,…
Against Queen Camilla
How would you feel about a Queen Camilla, as in the wife of King Charles? Personally I’d be dead against,…
Positively Trumpian
This being the time of year for it, you’re probably thinking what form your New Year New You will take.…
Children’s books for Christmas
Maurice Sendak, no mean judge, observed that William Nicholson’s Clever Bill was ‘among the few perfect picture books for children’.…
Serious concerns
It’s funny, isn’t it, how a dust jacket on a book can draw you to it from the other end…
Serious concerns
It’s funny, isn’t it, how a dust jacket on a book can draw you to it from the other end…
Ghosts of the seasons
Forget killer clowns. Halloween was once a very different affair from the Americanised gorefest it is now. In its-original Irish…
All things bright and beautiful
For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…
All things bright and beautiful
For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…
Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
Children’s books for Christmas
If it’s all right with you, I’d like to launch a campaign please. Right here. You may be wanting me…
