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I'm frequently distracted by the live feeds of unending crises. Since my last post here, we've had a Conservative election landslide...

You're probably all familiar with the six demands made by the 19th Century parliamentary reform movement known as the Chartists . F...

It was a cheap and obvious political gambit for the opposition parties to deny the Conservatives their desired three day recess fo...

One small pleasure to come out of watching all the recent UK political conversations has been the proliferation of Brexit metaphors. Y...

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...