Well it is that time of year when you have a little time to reflect. And I have decided that I am no longer happy using Facebook. I hate the experience and they are undermining democracy. And I waste too much time on Twitter. I love the experience but I can’t seem to take it

The Silver Chair is a good book, but it has some political and religious messages.

Lyrical Ballads was a revolutionary collection of poems that changed the way we think about verse. It was also a successful get rich quick scheme.

A review of British Prime Ministers’ attitudes to Europe reveals that the UK’s political elite has never really got what the EU is about.

A meeting between Neils Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1942 raises interesting questions.

  We are at the end of chapter 43 and we find Gibbon in full on enlightenment mode. The reign of Justinian happened to coincide with a couple of comets, some significant earthquakes and a major plague. Previous ages would have agreed with the Byzantines themselves and taken these as communications from God but Gibbon