• Really Bad Hair Day

    Bad hair day doesn’t begin to describe the awfulness of a day of real negativity.  There are days when the sun just seems to go out.

  • Bad News Fatigue

    I turned to the Guardian this morning after my Bad Hair Day yesterday, looking for inspiration but need not have bothered.

  • Was the Noble Savage a Happy Bunny?

    It is pleasant to imagine that there was a day in the distant past where people did not live in Grenfell Tower and didn’t have to look at Trump’s haircut in the media.

  • Happiness and Genetic Bingo

    We can expect limited success in our endeavours to change but some change is better than none. We may be able to tip the balance in our favour.

  • The Stockmarket as a Complex Adaptive System

    I recommend a paper entitled “The Stockmarket as a Complex Adaptive System” by Credit Suisse Director Michael J. Mauboussin.

  • London as a foreign city.

    Portobello Road in London W11 is a most curious mix of home and abroad. 

  • Dvorak – Stabat Mater

    For many years I had worked on the assumption that anything written east of Berlin was cacophonous and horrible. I have been proved wrong by Dvorak.

  • Art as metaphysics

    I have sometimes wondered whether art has any importance, and if so, what? 

  • Art as a lens on “reality”.

    You may be forgiven for mistaking the image above for photo montage. But it is not: it is the London Mustaba project.

  • “Objective truth” is an illusion.

    Unqualified objective truth can not exist.  Heavily qualified objective truth probably does.