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The Second Referendum, or, Obliquity
The following has occurred: The election result has opened up a window of opportunity for rethinking Brexit. Certainly that’s what European leaders, various journalists and pro-EU British politicians...
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Ethereum and the Bronze Age – quick and dirty post on how archaeology can...
In the Tolkien, not the endocrinological or Snow White sense, Randy is a dwarf. Tolkien’s Dwarves were stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out...
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A walk through Montpelier, Bristol
Above, Lower Cheltenham Place, Montpelier, Bristol, with those flat-fronted houses that could be any age from 1810s to 1850s. You may already suspect that I am a naturally untalented photographer. It...
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Who dug the New Cut?
This is a story about oral history and how oral history can conflict with official history. It is not yet, unfortunately, a story about how to tell which is correct. It is also a story about Bristol,...
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HyperNormalisation
In response to one person asking public demand, a couple of thoughts arising from the new Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalisation released on iPlayer a couple of weeks ago. Yes this take is as hot...
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The consequences of conservatism in the US and the UK
Actually, not really conservatism, that’s not fair (but it was alliterative). Conservatism is a political mood or tradition or character feature with a long (duh obviously) history, and it is seen on...
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I dream of islands: the Dubrovnik project, part 1
I dream of islands And city states Marble on marble, wave on wave The towers rise from Byron’s pages Disrupt the pine and rock hung sea With benedictions from St Blaise And through the monastery...
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If you’re not slightly freaked out by conflict archaeology, there’s something...
Bit of easy hit, this one. So, bite me. My friend Dr Gabe “Legend in his own Lecture Notes” Moshenska, an archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has been roundly traduced by no less organs...
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NOTES: War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik
Photo above, my own. Dubrovnik from the city walls, September 2016. Rooves much repaired. The many brighter orange patches are where the shells fell. Below are a few pictures from the exhibitions at...
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A history/archaeology of Crazy Shit
I have a belief about beliefs Posit: certain beliefs cluster. Through an unknown combination of crowd effect (you like the stuff your friends like) and perhaps some weird, alchemical property of the...
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How to think about the entrenched wealth of the aristocracy
I was recently talking to a constitutional historian whose main interest is in the royal family. He was frustrated and amused by the fact that people’s default assumption about him was that he must be...
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Mandates and who has them
It will tickle you if you are of a constitutional cast of mind and also like saying the word “mandate” repeatedly to note the following: On the one hand, Prime-Minister-by-the-end-of-tomorrow Theresa...
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I have friends who are socialists – the Corbyn leadership challenge
*eyes down* I have friends who are… socialists. *indrawn breaths and mutterings all round* I have an unresolved tension in my political soul – I am not much of a socialist, yet I yearn for them to...
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The great battle of our times – politics and psychopaths
It’s hard at the moment not to conceive of the wider political context in terms of Lord of the Rings quotes. This probably explains why I enjoyed the otherwise devastating Game of Thrones finale last...
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Will there come a time when Farage looks like a moderate choice?
The future of Nigel Farage’s political career may not be anyone’s idea of happy lunch time puzzler today. Actually it feels like I’ve been up eating shit sandwiches all night and am now voluntarily...
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The death of Jo Cox. Enough.
It’s a little thundery outside, and I’m writing this. I’ll probably wish later I’d cloaked it in more protective, distant, ironic language, or indeed tried to write in proper sentences, but I don’t...
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Why is the concept of species so important to us?
In terms of the history of biological enquiry, I don’t know, but I think I know why the mind picks at things like the discovery of stalagmite constructions created by Neanderthals in a French cave...
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The voice inside your head
On Saturday I learned something that blew my tiny mind, so much so that I was all out of wonder and awe by the time Eurovision came on. Apparently, some people don’t have an inner monologue – an...
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Polymaths at war
This is a little potted biography of Moshe Feldenkrais from the introduction to The Potent Self (disclaimer, this book gets rave reviews across The Internet but I’ve only read his preface so far and he...
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The Crisis Info Hub
I am always the last in line of the early adopters, or first in line of the mainstream, as you care to take it (I’m not sure which is worse) so when I have a good idea about something, I can reasonably...
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