Barbican Conservatory is a masterclass in stupendously misleading design.

Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality.

Literary pilgrimage of the humbled.

My week as a talking head.

Work is not a destination, it's an activity

I couldn't help but wonder if that was the last of it.

How are we to go on and what are we to make of this new world?

'The great freak of nature! Half a man and half an elephant.'

So CPC is busy social engineering its own citizens, why should anyone care?

Nothing but a complete surrender to party ideology would do.

Is what Noel Coward once said.

On top of everything else, we are neither at the beginning nor the end.

It was supposed to be the most important book to have ever been written. It was going to teach me everything I would ever need to know. It didn’t of course.

If Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man are to be believed, I am now too old to be a youthful lover and nowhere near bearded enough to be a soldier.

With time, what was once terrible became to mean great.

The plague of our time cannot be sufficiently described by terms such as 'lies' or 'deceit'.

From Mytilenean debate, to the fall of Rome, and end of the Enlightenment the parallels are all too obvious and writ too large. You can’t hide from the present in history books.

There is a dictum in western culture that instructs one to follow the light.

To my best knowledge, social media addict I am not.

In life marked by so much promise, how did I stoop so low?