More in Heaven and Earth

The incompetence of the EU's approach to the Greek debt crisis has been staggering. 5 years of failure have gone by and we are closer to...

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, H...

'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sh...

A very talented family (under the name Calamvi de Profundis) have produced a long version of  'The Misty Mountains Cold', the Dw...

A Poem. To be read fast.  (to the tune of Modern Major-General if you prefer) There was a merry passenger a messenger, an errander; ...

No monument stands over Babi Yar. A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. I am afraid. Today I am as old in years as all the Jewish people. ...

We've seen food banks become increasingly high profile. It is little known, but the Trussell Trust, by far the largest organiser of UK...

It is generally accepted as true that political participation in Britain is at depressingly low levels.  People regularly bemoan the rise o...

Tomorrow, Thuesday 22nd May, we have the 5-yearly European Elections.  You should vote Conservative for our MEP's.  The European Par...

05/11/2013 Such an amazing story. A man is stopped for not having an ID on a train. The cops do some research. He doesn't have a pensi...