December 3, 2020

2020 will go down as a bad year for Napoleonic plans, but a great year for taking up qigong, and in particular, learning to shift your weight without falling over. Anything which involved putting a date in a calendar, or contacting public and private bodies, or  even putting physical objects in physical places, has been doomed and we've been thwarted time…

June 19, 2020

Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton, 2019)  Twelve characters, twelve identities. There's a lot to say, and a lot has been said, about this novel which won  the Booker Prize, so this is a brief personal reaction. I love the way Bernadine Evaristo shows us conflict and then encourages us to believe that conflict can be resolved. (Mr Loverman…