Category: blog post

  • 25/03/2025
    I wrote this several years ago for a publication that I will not name. I doubt it was their sort…
  • 17/03/2025
    Writer Didier Eribon: ‘My mother was unhappy her whole life’ Didier Eribon’s mémoire,The Life, Old Age, and Death of a…
  • 14/02/2025
    David Allen, the Irish comedian, who hosted his own comedy show in the UK, featuring straight talking to the camera,…
  • 05/02/2025
    How odd Christian beliefs about sex shape the world From a book review in the Economist of Lower than the Angels:…
  • 25/02/2024
    Retired husband syndrome — Wet fallen leaves Japanese men have an identity crisis Not as unpleasant as that other material…
  • 07/11/2023
    Departure time 2023, arrival 1943 Timothy Garton Ash in the NYRB When I started writing my book Homelands: A Personal…
  • 05/08/2023
    Don’t aim to work in the NHS A little while back, Lisa and I were out for dinner at a…
  • 01/08/2023
    Shit life syndrome The Enlightened Economist | Economics and business books The over-burdened welfare state is not quite coping with…
  • 19/07/2023
    Rees’s law of education (After a John Hennessy quote that the time to assess a Stanford degree is ten years…
  • 10/07/2023
    G-g-generation Went to see The Who last night at Edinburgh castle. Great show, and the weather blessed us. First time…