I'm wondering about writing a post or two about the sheer oddness off being an author. In particular about how one pours oneself into the construction of paragraphs, arguments and theses, only to find that one's work has only just…
From the Q Archive (originally posted in October 2012) 20 years ago my parents bought a south-facing wheat-field off a local farmer. As an investment. It's about 10 acres in beautiful rural Norfolk (see the photo at the bottom of…
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and Mark Rothko (1903-1970) might not seem natural subjects for a Q combination. She was an American poet who rarely, if ever, left her hometown in Massachussets or even her bedroom. Yet she managed to convey real…
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It's big news these days - after all, it was only yesterday that MI5 was revealed to have been storing phone data for the last 10 years. The impact of the surveillance state is barely understood by most of us…
Sacred Treasure David & Heather Jackman are old friends - and they've just contributed this essay on marriage to the Cambridge Papers There is something wonderfully redemptive about this - bride's father grabs stepfather to walk down the aisle too... Simon…