A nice mini-documentary put together by Warner Bros to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of Kubrick’s The Shining. It’s slightly odd that none…
The latest graph, showing the number of deaths relating to coronavirus in different countries in Europe, depicts in an even more chilling way the level…
A similar madness to that which swept America and enabled Trump to get into power swept the UK when we voted first for the far-right…
Psychologist, Philosopher, Intellectual Pilgrim I was shocked to discover yesterday that my old friend, the philosopher and psychologist, Zbigniew Kotowicz, had died last September of…
In this extraordinary, alarming new age, in which the western world seems suddenly to be retreating from the core values of civilisation – reason, love,…
Above: The Great Fire of London, 1666. Wikicommons. I’ve been meaning to write a blog about Brexit for a very long time, but the story has…
Oh dear. The Telegraph, which this year has regressed from being a respectable broadsheet to a blatant Brexit propaganda rag, has got it wrong again….
On June 11, the British climbing world lost one of its greatest advocates in the inimitable form of Ken Wilson. For a decade, from 1969…
Picture: Crown Copyright/Public Domain On this 100th anniversary of the worst day in British military history, I want to pay tribute to those relatives of…
January 2018: I’ve reinstated this old post, from June 24 2016, on the front of my website so that anyone coming here can see that…
On the UK Climbing website that I frequent, the subject of the EU referendum has loomed large in recent threads in the ‘Down the Pub’…
Here I shall be posting some of the better articles I’ve read on the ongoing British nightmare that David Cameron has bequeathed to us Brexit…
