The Plashing Vole

I've spent a lot of time in airless rooms with alpha males this week. First was author Adam Thorpe, the very fine author of novels incl...

If you haven't read The Spirit Level , which laid out in stark statistical detail the facts about inequality (including the revelation t...

I could mine Hamlet  for quotes for ever, but one line has never been my motto: 'Brevity is the soul of wit' (see my Twitter feed if...

I read a while ago that CCTV simply displaces crime into areas without CCTV (another way the sharp-elbowed move on their problems), that th...

A brief one today: it's been a hard few days and it's getting busier. Since I last blogged I finished reading a PhD dissertation, wh...

At the end of last week I wrote a fairly incoherent piece which boiled down to this: academics, students and managers need to be a little b...

So we hosted two very exciting novelists last week in an art gallery! ,  reading from and talking about their work. Hosted by poet, novelist...