Martin In The Margins

Does this sound familiar? You’re thoroughly absorbed in reading a biography or historical work, lost in admiration for the autho...

This open letter , condemning ‘the Israeli assault on the defenceless people of the Gaza strip', angered and saddened me so ...

John McCarthy seems like a nice chap. I quite like his travel programme on Radio 4 on Saturday mornings, and he has that air of affability...

Last week I wrote about the way that one’s historical sympathies can be swayed by one’s ancestors’ political affiliations, and I mentione...

Just heard this online at KCSM , the Bay Area Jazz Station. It's 2.30 a.m. over there, but I often find their lazy late-night moods matc...

I imagine serious historians must tear their hair out at programmes like Roundhead or Cavalier: Which One Are You?  which was on BBC 4 la...

So farewell then, Homeland : or rather, farewell Season 1, since we’re told that a second series is currently being filmed . We’ll have to...