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September 15, 2025
August 17, 2025Or, what’s an mp3, why I love them, and why you should too Cut to the chase: an mp3 is an audio file which you can play on any browser. Your laptop, your smartphone, iPad, whatever. You don’t need to download any special app in order to open it, because your device will default to whatever appropriate app it already…
June 17, 2025The news broke today that Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King has at long last gained Grade 1 listed status. Of course this gladdened my heart because, as a teenager and a student, growing up in very noisy household, it was one of my favourite haunts - a place to go for a bit of peace. If you think…
July 3, 2021Music to my ears from David Mitchell at this year's Sidmouth Literary Festival Knowing neurosis from the inside ought to be really useful for a novelist, if only it didn’t make it so very hard to get yourself into the starting gate. If you don’t dare call yourself a writer, you can’t say you suffer from ‘writers’ block,’ can you? …- September 2, 2020A brilliant examination of so many things. The way a child is shaped by other people, and the people who love us most of all, for good or ill. The strength of other people's expectations. The pressures on men as well as women to slip into a desired role. The ways in which, rebelling, we fall into line. The permanent…
