What I learned this week

That CK Williams has died. More than two weeks ago! One of my heroes. This is the first thing I … More

Why social media doesn’t create intelligence

Those kind and wonderful people at Change This have just released a new batch of free, downloadable manifestos. These articles … More

Poetry and Work I recently took out a book via Interlibrary loan called, The Mind at Work: Valuing the … More

Travelling without a visa It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More

Below is the text of a PowerPoint presentation that I am giving today at the Directors of Studies Conference 2015, at Port … More

A friend recently asked me if I was writing. I replied, as I always do, saying that it was going … More

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

During the mad phase, when everything was a tweet or a share or a retweet, one of my favourite discoveries … More

Sporting occasions are bad. Or the Corbyn result, that was hard. I seem to remember (no one else does) a … More

A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

Or perhaps you’re waiting at the bus stop. You could text someone. But if you said ‘no’ to the text, … More