Score one point for each thing you’ve done that most other people have not done. Continue reading →

The marvellous David Olusoga is going to interview Obama on Wednesday. I have a burning question that I’d like him to ask. Continue reading →

When I woke up this morning my dog couldn’t stand up. Couldn’t walk. I called the vet. Continue reading →

I was 15 when all the kids in my neighbourhood snuck into Marten’s Grove to go skinny dipping. It was the first time I had ever seen so many girls my own age in the nude. Continue reading →

What would life have been like if Ken and Bill had headed down to those desolate islands? Continue reading →

The Ragged Clown finds his home at last. Continue reading →

There is a day, just a few years in the future, when the tyranny of the motor car over our towns and cities will come to an end.  When my car is both electric and autonomous (not long to wait … Continue reading →

A charming meditation on the wonders of old age. I’d previously read Mr Klein’s wonderful little book of philosophy jokes — Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar — but didn’t realize until halfway through that it was the … Continue reading →

Choose your metaphors carefully. Brexit is like a game of tiddlywinks We played a game two and a half years ago and you lost. That’s why you want another game. Then what? Best of three? But you cheated last time! … Continue reading →

The hardest thing to bear in all of this is that no one is allowed to tell the truth: not May, not Corbyn, not the People’s Vote People, not the Daily Mail, not the BBC, not even the Guardian editorial … Continue reading →