Growing up, there was a lot of classical music in our house. Of the many composers on the turntable, Ralph Vaughan Williams - affectionately known as ‘RVW’ - enjoyed pride of place. It was the soundtrack of my early years. In more recent times I’ve reacquainted myself ever more with RVW’s output, not least through [...]
21 June is World Humanist Day. So I thought it worth posting a few thoughts about what it means, for me, to be a humanist. First, a bit of definition. A humanist is someone who believes that the Universe is natural, not supernatural, and looks to reason and science to explain it; that it's a [...]
A central principle of a working life - or, at least, of my working life - is that anything non-urgent can be put off until retirement. The folders full of paperwork, the stacked boxes of VHS and cassette tapes, the mid-1980s cheque book stubs, the vast collection of keys long dissociated from the locks in [...]
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