I am a town mouse, no doubt about it. If I don’t have 10 million people around me, I start wondering if rapture has come and left me behind. Even London can feel too quiet: Manhattan, now you’re talking. Lagos, even better. There are some places which make me extremely appreciative of the quieter life, […]
This blog is not much given to dealing with the latest micro-trend or celeb-worship but Prince was special. I saw him in concert three times and he was always superfantabuloustic. That wonderful mix of musical virtuosity, craziness, and sheer, raw talent does not occur all that often, as even the most cursory examination of […]
Here I am in sunny Guernsey once again. It is a complete coincidence that I have visited both Jersey and Guernsey in the months of the Panama Papers. Honest, M’Lud. That house in the picture above is one that I pass on my amble to work daily. I want that garden moved to London in […]
My nephew and I have an ongoing debate where I insist that time as perceived by humans is an artificial construct (which it is!), and he insists it’s not. Anyway, I was watching Agents of Shield (season 3, episode 15) and it had the simplest explanation of how you cannot go back in time to […]
The latest news from our friends in the scientific world, this time from the neuroscientists. I love neuroscientists – the only scientists crazier than them are my good friends the physicists, although chemists can also be very good value for money as they love blowing stuff up so much. Anyway, the good news according to […]
