Ten Minutes Hate

How much is too much to spend on a book? As with so much in life, George Orwell has already considered and …

In the coming year, I really want someone to stand up – and I really hope it will be Ed Miliband – …

Immigrant au pair, visa status unknown, brain washing children in her care at the local park. This is the kind of claptrap …

My nine-to-five role as a trainer at Liverpool John Moores University involves having to do many presentations and lead workshops. I live …

I love Pantomime – it is awful but fantastic at the same time, if that makes any sense – but if looking …

Twenty-four hours after the big day, by now hopefully the major disappointment should be fading. I refer, of course, to the possible …

One of the advantages of the internet is that on a winter’s day, you can navigate all around the world and visit …

After alighting at the Metro station Gambetta, I walked through a hill garden to gain entrance to the cemetery. Along one of …

I am reading The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth and it is so fantastic in so many ways that I can’t wait until …

The architecture impressed even before I’d seen the artwork at the Group Show, part of this year’s Biennial, at the Old Blind …