Library cuts
I love libraries. Always have. I could spend all day in a library, working my way through the stock. I even love the weird library smell (what is…
Strange experience in a public toilet
I was coming out of a public toilet in central London today (Paternoster Square, near St. Paul’s, if anyone’s interested), when I…
Rip Your Heart in Two
The Sunday papers often have sad stories. People with cancer, children needing transplants. Tug-at-the-heart-strings-over-your-tea-and-Cornflakes stuff. This Sunday’s Observer was different, though. The…
Good on you, Hugh!
It’s not often that I support violence, but in this case I completely support Hugh Grant, who is in trouble for throwing…
If it’s good enough for Einstein…
It’s funny how conservatives always complain about left-wing thought dominating academia. They set up absurd organisations like Campus Watch dedicated to rooting…
Mao: Crazy or not so Crazy? Discuss.
Monthly Review has one of those articles on its webiste that makes you sit up and take notice. It’s title: Did Mao…
I almost agreed with David Cameron!
I had a real shock just now. Read a BBC News story about David Cameron talking shit, and actually found myself agreeing…
In-Dependence from Bondage
This book seems worth reading. It looks at the work of Claude McKay and Michael Manley, an interesting combination, and more broadly…