Finnginn

It started, as so many things do, with the purchase of what I hope one day to be a flourishing  Sorbus Aucuparia. Currently, it is just an 8...

When I was a bartender I used to read, on average, a book a week. Now I consider myself lucky if I get through a book in a month. Here...

Like Schopenhauer, I tend to think of freedom as an essentially negative concept. Freedom is a sort of absence of hindrance. Most obvious i...

When I was a teenager, I knew everything. Twenty years later, I have many doubts. If things carry on this way, by the time I am seventy, I c...

Many have struggled to define Englishness. The anthropologist Kate Fox and the broadcaster Jeremy Paxman have book length studies on the ...

Each night, I read Michael Rosen's 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' aloud to my son, Finn Jr. It's one of the few children...

For part of my degree in linguistics, I had to do a course in phonetics. The phonetics professor, Ken, was a friendly chap with a good sense...