The Cynical Tendency

The news that the play "Under Milk Wood" is being done as an opera caught the eye and gave a jolt to the memory.  How...

When I were a lad, science was, well, science and politics was for politicians, almost all of whom knew next to nothing or more than ...

There was a time when London became a ghost town.  Perhaps it was a time or two depending on how you look at the figures. Once wa...

A thin week because of this and that in the diary.  This was intended for 1st April, but any blog for that date would be suspect.  Gi...

The picture above is of neighbours who lived next door to each other for a few years.  At the time one was a well known, highly respe...

One of the phrases that crop up in documentaries and history programmes is "changed the course of history".  When this is s...

If you can have a referendum then so can we is what some people in the Shetlands, the Orkneys and the Western Isles are saying to t...