A grandiloquent analysis of our most accessible means of visual representation, the photograph.
Nonsense
Book review: ‘The View in Winter’ by Ronald Blythe
Reflections on old age.
Book review: ‘Rare Singles’ by Benjamin Myers
The come-back of a one-and-a-half-hit soul wonder.
Book Review: ‘Every Man for Himself and God Against All’ by Werner Herzog
A memoir.
2024 in a nutshell
My fourteenth annual video slide-show of the year.
Book review: ‘London Review of Books: an incomplete history’
A profusely illustrated coffee-table tome.
Science FTW!
BBC: Spacecraft attempts closest-ever approach to Sun A Nasa spacecraft is attempting to make history with the closest-ever approach to the Sun. The Parker Solar Probe is plunging into our star's outer atmosphere, enduring brutal temperatures and extreme radiation. Genius move on behalf of Nasa to time this rendezvous to happen during mid-winter, when the… Continue reading Science FTW!
Charles Rex(otropia)
These new-fangled fivers… look more closely… …There’s no polite way of saying this: the Charles formerly known as Prince appears to be wall-eyed. His right eye is looking straight at us, while his left eye is glancing over our right shoulders. (In the good old days, an observation like this would no doubt have earned… Continue reading Charles Rex(otropia)
All my own stunts
They don’t call me Hebden Bridge’s answer to Tom Cruise without reason.
Book review: ‘The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, volume 28 • 1880’
Publishing on plant movement • researching earthworms • trying to get a civil pension for a friend • turning down an invitation from the Archbishop of Canterbury • and lots more…