Flaneur

During the 2018 Centennial of World War I, Donald Trump was scheduled to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France.

In the late 1960s a young English composer, John Tavener, released some cantatas on the Beatles’ Apple record label.

Social media has been in meltdown in recent days about graffiti allegedly defacing the hallowed walls and pillars of Canterbury Cathedral.

It was in the mid-1990s that I discovered I was the Antichrist.

For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London.

Back in 1978 the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti made a trip to the Pacific Northwest.

I watched the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics at my neighbour’s house.

A friend of mine recently joined a new inclusive Christian network, and wanted to know if I planned to sign up.

My interest in politics started at the age of 11.

Toddlers love books.

Are you religious?

Search online for ‘revenge fiction’ and you’ll find examples of novels in which a desire for revenge drives the plot: The Count of Monte Cristo , Frankenstein , True Grit , Murder on the Orient Express , Gone Girl , Wuthering Heights … This story concerns…

In recent years drag has gone mainstream.

Amid the endless coverage of this year’s Glastonbury Festival I came across this enigmatic nugget from Time Out magazine: ‘Dermot O’Leary played a DJ set.

‘This above all: to thine own self be true.’

Kindness – I’ve long been a fan, even though its public image tended to be rather wet and doormatty.

Outside my new home cherry blossom has appeared.

The singer’s face is intense, flushed, contorted with emotion.