Wrestling Emily Dickinson

So I went to visit my folks today and, on the way out, discovered some twerp had shoved a BNP Euro Election leaflet through their door. Ther...

As I think I may have mentioned once or twice, I work in a bookshop. I started working there with the innocent delusion that I would be serv...

Via Bea Colley, a video for the Foyle Young Poets competition. Closing date 31st July 2009.

I had planned to use this entry to review the new Tori Amos album, Anormally Attracted to Sin. However, neither the Metro Centre nor the Ne...

I was away in York when the news broke that Ruth Padel appears to have smeared Derek Walcott in the course of her campaign for the Oxford p...

Anyone who's spent any amount of time talking to me will tell you that I'm a guy who takes religion pretty seriously. It's a Cat...

Thanks to Jonah Goldberg's laughable Liberal Fascism , I've been reading a lot of definitions of fascism lately, both on the interw...