At this time of the accession of King Charles III, I feel it is appropriate to reflect on the monarch’s role in the British Constitution. I make no claims to the validity of my views; this is simply my interpretation
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 of the music used in the actual film is used here, but I guess that
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 of Johnson’s much trumpeted ‘world beating’ ‘achievement’, the ‘success’ that he’s apparently so proud of.
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 Brexit project, and then for Bojo the Clown as ‘Prime Minister’. Many who voted for
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 cancer at the early age of 67. He was one of those rare, multi-faceted individuals
In this extraordinary, alarming new age, in which the western world seems suddenly to be retreating from the core values of civilisation – reason, love, beauty and truth itself, it is more than ever the job of the artist to
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 been unfolding so fast, and the ramifications have been so many and so vast, that
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. In its objection to Remainers waving the EU flag this evening at the Last Night
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 until 1978, through his Mountain magazine, he was a central conduit of information for the
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 mine who fought in both the world wars. There is nothing unusual about them; they
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 I still stand by the judgement I made on that historically disastrous day. I cannot
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’ forum. Last Wednesday, Roger Webb started a discussion entitled ‘No debate EU referendum thread.’ (http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/) ‘The
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