Prose and Passion

I'm shocked that George Monbiot has another book out -- and I haven't even managed to catch up with the last three. I do read his w...

I have decided that if I have to follow some kind of sport, watching the Oxford v Cambridge boat race is the most efficient way of doing it,...

Could you name a writer from Ecuador? Well, until a few weeks ago, I couldn't, even though I have shelves full of Latin American literat...

There's an Earthwatch lecture on at The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London, tonight at 7 pm, on two dolphin projects...

Artist Chris Drury has spent some time in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey. An exhibition of his antarctic art will go on show...

biofuels have fallen from grace with alarming speed. What looked like the future of transport a year ago is now seen as a threat to food pro...

... no, that's not my social security number, it's a jupiter-sized planet which does us the favour of circling its sun in a plane th...

Finally, I got round to reading "Die Vermessung der Welt" (Measuring the World), by Daniel Kehlmann. This is a somewhat fictionali...

I really enjoyed watching Sidney Pollack's documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry earlier this week. Beforehand, I only knew two things ab...

Five years of war and mayhem in Iraq, what a depressing anniversary. Around this time in 2003, I ran a preliminary kind of blog (without the...

Generally I don't believe that there is anything special about the people who call themselves aristocrats, but I might make an exception...

Back in January, I was raving about Yasmin Levy and her Ladino / Flamenco music. Thanks to this and the magic of MySpace I found a "fri...