The Plashing Vole

If you're as old-fashioned as me and read actual newspapers at weekends, you'll know that the culture sections devote huge amounts o...

I've largely kept my own counsel about the Labour Party leadership election . It's proving so divisive, and the arguments are so ted...

Posting this for a friend - wish I'd thought of it! I'm basically the departmental Groke . Here's a scene in which the new univ...

Too many depressing things are happening at the moment, though there are bright spots (I refereed 57 straight fights at the Much Wenlock Oly...

On Tuesday night I went to Stafford Castle's Shakespeare Festival to see Much Ado About Nothing , performed en plein air . I didn't...

Apologies for the break in service folks. It's been a hell of a couple of weeks: exam boards, marking, a funeral over in Ireland, indivi...