Rembrandt, Belshazzar's Feast, 1635, (National Gallery, London). The message is written in vertical lines starting at the top right corner, with "upharsin" taking two lines.

Beautiful Place, Beautiful People?

No, it didn’t quite work out like that, it never does. However Arcadian the setting, we humans will wreck it … More

We are all Gay now

I am so grateful for the BBC who explain that LGBT+ is now passé.

War – Why do the Nations rage?

War has its origins in the very first animal life to evolve on earth.