Why did this ‘health care’ revolution take so long?
The Guardian today carries an article about the problems of the so-called death-tax, the white paper on social care, and government proposals for reform, all of which seem to stretch…
Music in ‘Alone in Berlin’
I remember listening to a lecture on teaching by the philosopher David Carr, in which he noted (I’m paraphrasing what I remember, so I hope I’m not misquoting) that literature…
Mark Simpson: “the world’s most perceptive writer about modern masculinity”
I have been saying this ever since I bought It’s a queer world in 1996, and I say it every time I read another book, another weblog, every time I…
A fat lot of good ‘choice’ is….
You know it when you see it, but how hard it is to come up with it yourself: a bank of data just sitting there on a plate (literally, in…
Trololo, it’s meme heaven
Thanks to Maria via Facebook for this one: And if you’re thinking what on EARTH is that, that’s just what I thought, while recognizing instantly that this had all the…