What's Now, What's Next

In an interview in the Graun Eddie Izzard says: "I plan my life with military precision. I plan very, very far into the distance, 20 o...

Chatting to young Ruben about how the Japanese don't go in for casual social touching, unlike the Italians, but (in my experience of wo...

Last week I was talking with my friend Rob, whose son is doing a music course in Guildford.  It's tertiary education and essentially eq...

According to my sources, the superstar Greek philosopher Socrates said: "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being...

Greece, retail, deficits, public sector etc. Looking round, there's a lot to worry about. Shit hitting the fan. People losing their li...

This blog entry was prompted by the reflections of Andrew Curry in his blog "thenextwave" in a piece entitled " Twittering a...

There's a group in the United States led by Harold Camping who believes that the world will come to an end this weekend, on May 21st an...

Between 30 and 40 people, with 7-8 different types of percussion, from big sordo drums to little agogo bells. Six different rhythm patter...

I went to a church school where we had a school service in the attached church every Tuesday morning.  I learned a lot of words that I later...

If you care to understand the ways of money better then I heartily recommend the Planet Money podcast from National Public Radio in the US....