31
May
2019
Endgame – almost.
These are strange days we’re living through. It seems that the whole world is at a point of change. Struggles are going... Read More
22
Dec
2018
What is going on?
The news is becoming stranger and stranger. Arguably, it isn’t even news, it’s what news hounds write when they are feeling slightly... Read More
12
Jan
2018
JOHN CLARE, A CRISIS OF IDENTITY
Northamptonshire County Library, in the county where Clare was born and recognised as a much-loved poet of the countryside, is considering how to... Read More
6
Feb
2017
WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS by C P Cavafy
Constantine Cavafy, the Greek poet writing in 1898 in his adopted homeland, Egypt, understood the ebb and flow of political events and the... Read More
2
Jul
2015
THE WORLD IS IN A STRANGE MOOD
Are we turning a corner or biding our time? Everything seems stuck at present. Not just the Greek economicos, but the countless... Read More