Helen King on A Load of Ballokis:
Ah yes, the V=steam: I blogged about this, and the use of mugwort, on https://theconversation.com/floating-wombs-and-fumigation-why-gwyneth-paltrow-ha...
Yagana on Enoch Powell’s Altered World:
As a native Urdu speaker I can't say I find Enoch Powell particularly objectionable compared with, say, most of those indulging in "virtue signaling" ...
vaporizen on Cecil Taylor 1929-2018:
First paragraph aside, this is an insightful tribute to a complex, seldom fully understood creative artist. Thank you for it. I was one of musician...
philip proust on Breaking the Mould?:
"The crisis in democracy isn’t confined to Europe."
It might be more accurate to speak of a crisis in liberal democracy. Democracy without its libe...
jssiii on Is sumer icumen in?:
Another collapsing of Spring into Summer comes in the Padstow 'Obby 'Oss Song, sung on 1 May:
Unite and unite and let us all unite
For Summer is a...