I remember as a child seeing from the family car, the strange temple like buildings along the Golden Mile stretch of the Great West Road at Brentford. These factorys still seem otherworldly today; very retro but somehow still very modern; secular temples to industry and progress. I worked for a bit in the Gillette factory canteen during the 1980s.one of my various random jobs that I rather enjoyed. I suppose the inter war years were other worldly in a sense. There must hav

The ferry was nearing it's destination – the Island of Symi, just an hour from Rhodes. My senses are alive after the beautiful crossing. I went below; I didn't want to miss the stop. There are a lot of don't knows travelling abroad. I must quote the American Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld: “ There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the one

“A great man of letters” That's the phrase that came to mind. It's a bit like “Renaissance man” it's one of those things. I am always amazed by the output of writers, those thick tomes, all those classics. Dostoevsky - wrote most productively when he was in debt – he had a gambling addiction -sounds horrible. I'm not a quick reader but I do like a big thick book sometimes. – but all that writing- how did they bear to do it? I am just impressed basically. All those words! All

So we're now in the 3rd week of our relatively liberal lock down. The 23rd of March was the last time I had gathered with chums in Oxford and the first time I felt a bit spooked – it was a “ this is really happening” moment. People must have had the same feeling at the start of WW2 – except greatly magnified. I was looking around for a place to get my coffee fix; to my relief good old Greggs was open. I was very pleased recently to see this Greggs opening in the centre of Ox

Such a relief to have entered 2020. The threat of that Pol Pot Corbyn and his henchmen and henchwimmin averted along with their Year Zero policies. The Tory scum & Un-Woken plebs in the North not enforceably Woken up at re-education camps or liquidated if they where beyond reprogramming. The cities have not been emptied by climate extinction fanatics in an attempt to create a carbon neutral agrarian utopia and the consequential mass starvation. As has been said “The road to h