Wading Through Treacle

From The Times ( Byline section), Saturday October 3rd 2025. "... That discouraged me from ever trying to write a novel. I'm no...

Robert Redford as Bill Bryson .. plus friend From The Guardian review : "In A Walk in the Woods , directed by Ken Kwapis and bas...

A certain amount of excitement in the George Mason University sector of the Internet on Robin Hanson's upcoming book, " The Age of...

I listened to the entirety of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party Conference speech so that I could summarise it for you here. It wasn't...

We were at Bristol Zoo today. It's been decades since I've been able to get Clare to even contemplate such a visit given her memorie...

Shadow tucked up for the day As Adrian observed: "Life's tough ..." The autumnal front garden There are a few w...

Geoff and Kate Mercer From the Wikipedia article : "Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay) had to...

Did I mention that the Draka are a master race who have conquered half the world and subjugated everyone else as slave-serfs with the u...

All those people crowing that Jeremy Corbyn has opportunistically changed his position on Trident, Europe, military interventionism, singing...

Evolutionary psychologist Daniel Nettle wrote an important paper ten years ago, " The Evolution of Personality Variation in Humans and ...