Martin In The Margins

The Edward Carpenter anniversary provides me with an extremely tangential excuse for yet another mention of our recent visit to New York. If...

I conceive a millenium on earth - a millenium not of riches, nor of mechanical facilities, nor of intellectual facilities, nor absolutely of...

Norm celebrates the appointment of the first blogging Foreign Secretary. I'm a huge admirer of young Miliband and think he has the pote...

I didn't watch much of the BBC's Glastonbury coverage last weekend. I don't think I'm part of the intended demographic (but ...

No West Wing obsessive will be able to resist this quiz , which assesses your similarity to characters from the much-missed show. And I c...

So that's it then, he's gone . Perhaps the ex-PM can take comfort from the fact that, despite the mostly grudging farewells here at...

The Drink Soaked Trots offer a useful analysis of Ian Buruma's article in today's Guardian , in which he uses sweeping generalisati...