Martin In The Margins

I listened to a particularly good edition of Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4 today. The subject was Mary Wollstonecraft and one ...

Time to sign off for a few days, with a couple of pictorial reminders of places we've visited during the year. First, Val d'Orcia in...

Regular readers (and I know there are one or two of you) will be aware that, despite its generally (if sometimes uneasy ) secularist outlo...

My sixteen year old son and I have been having daily disagreements about the progress of health care reform in the US. He takes his politi...

This is a dangerous time of year for uneasy atheists and agnostics, especially those whose uneasy relationship is with the Christian tradi...

Another normlink : the always spot-on South Park imagines a world without the internet. I watched the clip with a shudder of recognition. ...

Here's the ideal festive present for your pseudo-leftist friends: a Gnome Chomsky, or if you prefer, a Garden Noam. Other punning produc...