Theresa May wants a red, white and blue Brexit.
Author: Richard Carter
A fat, bearded chap with a Charles Darwin fixation.
Spectacular solution
My genius temporary solution to broken reading spectacles.
Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Tom Cruise has never won an Oscar. Not once. Not for Eyes Wide Shut. Not for Knight and Day. Not even for Mission: Impossible 2. He has come tantalisingly close a few times. Like when he played opposite Oscar-scooping Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man. And when his first ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, won an Academy Award… Continue reading Film review: Jack Reacher (2012)
Theoretical frivolousness
In which I am bamboozled (once again) by the LRB.
Making America grate again
Those crazy Yanks think they can out-stupid us.
Judge not, lest ye be smirched
Why we should issue our judges with a copy of the Daily Heil and a rubber stamp
Book review: ‘Keeping On Keeping On’ by Alan Bennett
Volume three of his popular diaries (and other stuff). As with the previous two volumes in this series, Alan Bennett's diary entries from the last ten years are hugely entertaining, as are the articles that follow them. However, the inclusion of a couple of plays at the end of this thick and enjoyable third volume… Continue reading Book review: ‘Keeping On Keeping On’ by Alan Bennett
Book review: ‘On Writing Well’ by William Zinsser
The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction.
Book review: ‘Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit’ by Steven Pressfield
Don't bother. Reading a book entitled and sub-entitled Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit: why that is and what you can do about it, a writer might reasonably expect to pick up one or two tips about how to get people to actually read their shit. But this book offers next to no such advice… Continue reading Book review: ‘Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit’ by Steven Pressfield
Book review: ‘The Wood for the Trees’ by Richard Fortey
The long view of nature from a small wood. Retired trilobite palaeontologist and current TV presenter Richard Fortey used the proceeds from one of his television series buy a small woodland plot in Oxfordshire. This enjoyable book describes his getting to know the history and ecology of the wood in depth. My kind of book.… Continue reading Book review: ‘The Wood for the Trees’ by Richard Fortey