Making friends with water
The title allows a significant degree of contradiction within its meaning. On the one hand, water is the essence of life. It is...
Singing your heart out
Everybody is a top-class singer in the shower. If every place we went to had the same acoustics as those found in the...
Wishing it could be Christmas everyday
‘Glam rock’ is a term that has recently appeared before my eyes for the first time in my life. It emerged and flourished...
Moaning for good
I trust you enjoy the ambiguity of the title. Allow me, without delay, to adopt the optimistic version. Where timely moaning spares me...
Give blood to give life
Many years ago, when I bumped into an uncle of mine in a bar in England, he called out, ‘fancy a pint?’. He...
First World tough on GBV
Everyone reading this article must please raise the right hand if they have never struck a woman, and especially in a domestic context....
Vanity in modernity
‘Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.’ Those were the sagacious (logophile vanity?) words of the famous writer, Jane...
Our world never learns
The writer did, last week, offer the suggestion that the global population – or sufficient numbers to influence the rest – is never...
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ByChris Morgan22 January 2026