Life at its best
I’ve just returned from revisiting the island of Skye after ...
On the brink? June 2017
Picture: Wikimedia Commons Some thoughts on returning from an idyllic ...
Zbigniew Kotowicz : 1950 – 2017
Psychologist, Philosopher, Intellectual Pilgrim I was shocked to discover yesterday ...
How to keep back beauty from vanishing away?
In this extraordinary, alarming new age, in which the western ...
Happy New Year, Citizens of Nowhere
Above: The Great Fire of London, 1666. Wikicommons. I’ve been meaning ...
The Private Life of a Reclusive Genius
One of the Christmas presents I received this year was ...
The Proms embrace the brotherhood of man, 2016
Oh dear. The Telegraph, which this year has regressed from ...
Ken Wilson: 7 Feb 1941 – 11 Jun 2016
On June 11, the British climbing world lost one of ...
A very sad centenary, July 1, 2016
Picture: Crown Copyright/Public Domain On this 100th anniversary of the ...
The blackest day in UK history for 77 years
January 2018: I’ve reinstated this old post, from June 24 ...
‘George’ project update, Xmas 2015
I have now been toiling away on my huge project ...
The Breakers of Britain – my view of the Brexiters, June 20, 2016
On the UK Climbing website that I frequent, the subject ...
Interview about Stanley Kubrick from Stanley and Us, 1998
An interesting, often amusing programme, by Mauro di Flaviano featuring many interviews of those who worked with Stanley Kubrick. Below is an extract in which I tell the story of a big clash in the dubbing theatre during the post-production of The Shining between Kubrick and the Dubbing Editor, Wyn Rider.