Rooksmoor's Tablets of Lead

To me it seems probable given the high level of hostility in the UK to membership of the European Union (EU) that in 2016 at the promised re...

I suppose many blogs show a 'journey' of the person blogging.  I had never intended that for this blog, it was simply a way for me t...

Back before the election in May 2010, I commented how it appeared that the Conservative Party had very little stated policy.  Wrongly I thou...

In many ways I am a middle class person.  My parents were certainly middle class, having risen from the skilled working class through study ...

I read a headline on a newspaper in a shop recently which blared that 1 in 4 parents in the UK is now a lone parent and the bulk of these ar...

I have just been watching a two-part programme called 'Losing It' which comedian, writer and yachtsman, Griff Rhys Jones produced fo...

I came across this essay on my work computer. It was my entry for the 2006 Pimlott essay writing prize. You can see by looking at the winn...