May 9, 2015 | Quote of the day
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying…”
May 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
First published by Standpoint magazine May 2015 In 2013 Lord Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill was giving a lecture at the Vatican. He was expecting to speak to a handful of intellectuals. Hundreds of people turned up, including, in the third row, a man...
Apr 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sufjan Stevens, No Shade in the Shadow of The Cross The New Basement Tapes, Lost on the River #20 Typhoon, Postscript Will Butler, Anna Odetta and Larry, Old Cotton Fields At Home Yo La Tengo, Pablo & Andrea Hollow Talk, Choir of Young Believers Bifrost Arts Psalm...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
First published in The Spectator, 28th March 2015 I took a trip to Hollywood because I’m a budding screenwriter. ‘Budding’ in this context means ‘unsuccessful’. Here’s Tennessee Williams on being an unsuccessful writer: ‘A life of clawing and scratching along a sheer...
Feb 14, 2015 | Quote of the day
“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, / And say my glory was I had such friends.”
