
It’s been a good week for Democracy
Nothing can undone the harm that they’ve done but, at least, this week, we have seen some of the nastiest men of our life times getting their comeuppance. For all the horrors…

Happy Thanksgiving to the USA! We have admired many of your Presidents.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America, 1851 – 1865. Franklin D Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States of America, 1933 – 1945. John F. Kennedy, 35th President…

A new Leonardo da Vinci – wow!
In the art world today, all the noise is about money. Yes, can you believe it? Wow! $450 million or £342 million! Just for an old painting too. Wow! It’s definitely…

A few of Donald Trump’s favourite people – nice!
Why can’t he say a bad thing about Vladimir Putin of Russia? Well, maybe he just likes bad guys like President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines… …or nasty President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…

Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un go up in smoke at Lewes Bonfire.
Those two rocket men, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un went up in smoke at Lewes Bonfire, our local and the world’s biggest celebration of that eccentric festival that used to be known…

Can the British parliament really show us that it deserves the Sovereignty that so many British people seem to want?
I see that we in the UK are going to allow our Parliament to vote on the BREXIT ‘agreement’ if there is going to be one. This is an enormous relief that,…

First the Fibonacci Poem and then the Movie
It has been an interesting month for my Fibonacci poetry – first, I’ve had three new poems published in the Fib Review, see yesterday’s post, and now I have seen the…

My 3 latest Fibonacci Poems are Tales from Ovid’s The Metamorphoses.
Diana and Actaeon (1556 – 1559) by Titian Titian’s great painting of Diana and Actaeon has been one of my favourite paintings ever since I went to the great Titian exhibition at…

So, President Trump, take your pick: Treason, Perjury, Obstructing Justice, Conflict of Interest or simple Incompetence?
Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States of America So what’s it going to be for the President of the USA? We learn something new about his…

Two more Fibonacci poems published in June’s The Fib Review
That splendid and pioneering journal The Fib Review is published three times a year, and the latest issue came out at the end of June with, I’m glad to write, two new…

My Fibonacci poem Music of the Spheres is set to music.
My American composer friend Tim Risher has done this terrific setting of my Fibonacci poem Music of the Spheres (originally published in the Fib Review). He’s been very clever with my speaking…

Cavalli’s Hipermestra – an Italian masterpiece from opera’s dawn gets its UK premier at Glyndebourne 2017.
Francesco Cavalli (1602 – 1676) I have had many inspiring experiences at Glyndebourne opera house over the decades (it seems like centuries) and every time I go, I come away with with…

My third Brighton novel almost ready.
I have just finished the third draft of my new Brighton novel, my third, Over the Hills is a Long Way Off. I will put it aside for a few months and…

Let’s not give up on the EU – it’s still not too late.
She did it – signed the letter that triggered the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ from the European Union. I had hoped, ever since the depressing referendum result, that, somehow, we might avoid the…

Two trusted and hard-working friends have reached the end of their working lives.
My two old and trusted pencils have finally reached the end of their working lives and, with much sadness, well, a touch of sadness, I’m going to thank them and put them…

Shelley’s Ozymandias is dug up in Cairo
At the weekly on-line poetry event that I host every Thursday, I thought, after seeing those amazing photographs from Egypt, that I had to read the great and resounding sonnet Ozymandias…