Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four …
Anniversaries always offer good opportunities for the reinterpretation of past events according to modern sensibilities. With each passing year the memories get …
I love Japan the most when it’s a public holiday. It seems like everyone agrees to put the frantic pace of life …
Roke wasn’t my first typhoon in Japan so I thought I knew what to expect: the windows would rattle, there would …
On my recent trip back to the UK a great pal asked me what it was about George Orwell that I thought …
You can tell it’s September. This time of year always feels like the start of something for me, maybe because my birthday …
From a friend who told me she had started to re-read the Brothers Grimm to tell the stories to her young son, …
I may never be the greatest photographer in the world, but every now and then I take one I’m really happy with …
Having spent the weekend taking journalism’s weak pulse, it would be remiss not to at least glance at the chart of the …
I am sure that you could argue that the world doesn’t really need another writer boring on about the Johann Hari plagiarism …
Thanks to a timely and thought-provoking reminder from Adam at Infantile Disorder, I didn’t miss the twentieth anniversary of the release of …
