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Today’s story is little more than the smashing together of two fancy words that I learned recently. (And, actually, one of them I made up)

Mar 24

Fearful sceptics have bewitched us into believing that it’s absurd to believe in humanity, their perverted tyranny twisting our minds such that a show…

Mar 17

'She wasn’t looking for me, she was looking for Kris Kristofferson; I wasn’t looking for her, I was looking for Brigitte Bardot.'

Mar 10

A previous iteration of David Charles would have felt threatened by this man’s speech and seen this fellow sauna dweller as an enemy to be fought and…

Mar 3

February 2023

The world is complicated. I have so much empathy for people who find it too much — I do too sometimes. But, as much as we’d love to, we can’t ever fully…

Feb 24

There’s always a profit, even if it’s not in honey. You’re releasing your bees at half past six in the morning: that’s the time you see deer walking…

Feb 17

Let us Movemberise this very month and reclaim these four weeks for the triumphal trinity of kettle-boiling, flask-filling and tongue-scorching - arise…

Feb 10

Plus the Asian squat, Cistercian numerals and dismantling the patriarchy

Feb 3

January 2023

The Nicaragua expedition included two in wheelchairs, one deaf, one blind, one double foot amputee, two arm amputees, one with spina bifida and three…

Jan 27

Cooperation on a local level — human to human, here and now — makes the relentless negativity of news media (and the power it represents) not only…

Jan 20

Put all your money on humanity, the stewards of the land, community, the carers and growers, and society, the builders and changers. We might not have…

Jan 13

No wonder I’m completely broken as a human being — frankly, it’s a miracle that I’m even able to sit here and type these wor— Oh, wait. I'm fine

Jan 6

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