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The Post-human World

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So to a fascinating talk on a Saturday afternoon at Studio Voltaire by Dr Danielle Sands*, Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Thought at the Royal Holloway, University of London. Entitled Thinking with Animals, she talked us through the current thinking on … Continue reading

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All Too Human…

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… Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life is the name of Tate Britain’s current exhibition, which ends later this month. It focuses on the painting of the human form and its relation to life around it. Stretching from … Continue reading

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Compassion and peace in Malta

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I officially ended my two years of nomadic existence at the end of February this year, but, I seem to have been as much on the road as I was before. So right now I’m in Malta, here for a … Continue reading

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Austerity and Eminences – you heard it here first

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The governmental response to the suspend Article 50 petition isn’t the only ‘official’ document to land in my ‘inbox’ recently. One is an interesting academic paper, the other, by way of the Guardian, is an issue raised by an MP. ( … Continue reading

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Out of the Hat

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The final, happy action from 2018’s Clapham Book Festival was to draw the name of the lucky winner of our prize raffle. Many of the management committee gathered, most appropriately, at The Windmill on the Common last Wednesday evening to … Continue reading