But the calendar matters. It's how we try to understand the ineffable passage of time. When Donne wrote "'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's" he was writing on 13 December, St Luc… (View Post)

7pm is unfashionably early for a division with the Government's survival at stake. Such events were traditionally held at 10pm after refreshment had been taken and were all the better for it. (View Post)

I've no doubt it's best appreciated from a moving train. But I'd occasionally stop there for R&R after 90 minutes battling my way out of central London - a practice now safely consigned to the du… (View Post)

Scratchwood was perched on the very pinnacle of 1950s nomenclature. We shall remember it. (View Post)

Try as I might I can't forget that I'm just one generation removed from hard graft and grinding poverty. I can never rise above the assumption that wealth must be grown, manufactured or dug out of th… (View Post)