You could write an entire PhD thesis about how difficult it is for academics to relax on holiday.

Fall of Western Civilisation (was it really less than a month ago?) with the mass migration from TwiXXtit of many of its more ...

Henry, how are things down there?’ A shaky live picture came on to the screen, and I stopped for a moment to watch. Behind ...

Apologies, this will be obvious to some, but I have seen enough so-so images on social media to convince me there are others ...

In the UK you can find Christmas foodstuffs appearing in shops from October, maybe even earlier. High Streets will put up ...

Bluesky has grown both in the range of interesting people and posts there and in overall numbers (see this counter – it’s approaching 23mn users at the time of writing). It feels like it’s the ...

My recent post on Tolkien got me thinking about some more current issues. There are others who are better guides to Tolkien’s moral philosophy than I. However, the ...

Waiting for Christmas Today is the first day of Advent. In Christian tradition this is a time of preparation and waiting for the arrival of the infant Jesus on Christmas Day. These days Advent is ...

Waiting for Christmas Today is the first day of Advent. In Christian tradition this is a time of preparation and waiting for the arrival of the infant Jesus on Christmas Day. These days Advent is ...