May 9, 2026 | Truth, Truth & Lies
Be Sceptical of the Quick Route Underneath a motorway there was once a road, underneath the road there was a lane, underneath the lane there was a track and underneath the track there was once an animal path. Hoof prints under the concrete. It is the animal path that...
Apr 4, 2026 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
‘David has decided,’ one of his aides explained, when I met him later, ‘that one cannot criticise a war when there are troops on the ground.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well … we have had that debate. But he feels it is a principle of British government.’ ‘But Churchill criticised the...
Dec 13, 2025 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Stop Saying That the Earth Is Doomed You may be doomed, I may be doomed, the earth not so much. And anyway, do you have any idea how offensive that is to the gods? To any amount of offended magics? Especially to your children? To the perpetual and ongoing miraculous?...
Nov 22, 2025 | Essays, Travel, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Ynys Enlli was among the many remote places of the west and north-west coasts of Britain and Ireland to be settled between around 500 and 1000 AD. During those centuries, an extraordinary migration occurred. Monks, anchorites, solitaries, and other devout itinerants...
Oct 18, 2025 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
One aim of Sapphire And Steel was to transpose the ghost stories out of the Victorian context into contemporary places, the still inhabited or the recently abandoned. In the final assignment, Sapphire and Steel arrive at a small service station. Corporate logos –...
Aug 30, 2025 | Essays, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Let’s take a second to consider what we associate with the word practical. If we look for its etymology, we quickly run into notions like this: Practical: from the Greek practikos via Latin to the French practique and finally to English. Practical is to move from...