Martin In The Margins

Apologies for light posting lately: things have been rather hectic here at Margins Manor. And the scarcity of postings is about to get worse...

Last year I argued that the growing habit among politicians of wearing poppies weeks before Remembrance Sunday risked cheapening the memo...

This blog has often bemoaned the decline of liberal, engaged Catholicism - and its replacement by a strident, reactionary anti-modernism - s...

A little bit of early Seventies Brit-folk nostalgia for a wet Wednesday afternoon. No reason, really: except that The Poor Mouth has put up ...

After The Sun 's announcement that it's deserting Labour, there's a kind of poetic justice in the decision by Waitrose to boyc...

The first in a new series, in which this blog will seek out and expose attempts to suggest an equivalence between terrorist outrages and the...

Second historical quotation of the day. From what Oliver Kamm argues is 'the most significant document of the Enlightenment', the ...