Prose and Passion

Vice-chancellors, profs, lecturers, schoolkids, parents, … that’s who. I don’t really read the right-wing papers, but have heard rumours tha...

On the Oral Fixation tour, Shakira started the show singing a couple of lines in Arabic. This snippet is only listed as "intro" in...

I visited the Radcliffe Camera today, the historic library building occupied by student protesters since yesterday's demo . Situation lo...

We had a nice little demo here at Oxford this afternoon, starting from Carfax tower and culminating in an occupation of the Radcliffe Camera...

I do realise that my concert photos tend to be a bit rubbish, but here's a selection of the least worst ones from last week's event ...

While I was at Lyon, I also visited one of the major works of my favourite architect, Santiago Calatrava, namely the railway station serving...

Concert review Shakira at Lyon Halle Tony Garnier 17.11.2010 After two months of touring the US, Shakira’s third global tour hit European so...

The song/video to match this extraordinary week should really be "If you tolerate this ... " by the Manic Street Preachers, which ...

(updated Fri 12.11.) I'm writing something about Wednesday's protests and riots, here's a reading list of stuff I liked: Spendi...

A month ago, scientists were out in the streets of London's government quarters to protest against the threatened cuts to the science bu...

Review of The Honest Look by Jennifer L. Rohn Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2010 (out on November 30th) The cultural divide between t...

Friday is the time of the week when I can't be bothered to write a proper blog post and post a video instead. And as I haven't put u...