I was sad today to hear of the death of Michael Meacher, left wing Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton. He was one of the last of the 'old school' Labour politicians who showed true Socialist convict…
...we're all dead, so goes the old joke. I've found myself thinking of 'the long run' increasingly often over the last year, and I'm not sure why. I think partially it's due to having children around…
There's a song by Neil Young called 'After the Goldrush', which he wrote in the 1970s. There's a couple of lines in there which for the last 20 years have sounded increasingly like a warning: "We got…
In the last few minutes of the final episode of the TV series 'Blackadder Goes Forth', Blackadder and his Company are poised to go 'over the top' from their trench to charge the German lines. In the …
...a thing as lovely as a tree, goes the poem. We've been blessed this year by squirrels in our garden. We live in a suburb of Sheffield with lots of trees which give a great playground for the squi…