I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of “niggardly,” who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the...

Ninety percent of paid work is time-wasting crap. The world gets by on the other ten.

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of ‘coming out,’ of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks...

eight plus nine is congruent to five, modulo twelve.