Like most things about the Earth our climate is a fucking miracle but being human we can’t help but think that it’s existence has something to do with us. In a way I suppose it does, we are after all the ultimate expression of countless aeons of ceaselessly churning ecology, if the Earth speaks then … Continue reading CLIMATE PRIMATE
I was in the West End recently with elder son Jake and wanted, for reasons too woven to explain, to verify the distance of the Sun from the Earth. I could have asked Siri this most simple of questions but as he is as dim as a box of squirrels I couldn't be arsed. Besides … Continue reading THE PITILESS PERFECTION OF BINARY
When we think of war we think of men and mud and blood. We think of horror, death and destruction, everything in its path lain waste. But wars don't have to be huge to be devastating. Regardless of size all wars are fought by individuals, soldier and civilian, we are encouraged to think of them … Continue reading FEAR OF HEIGHTS
When I was young and had my whole life in front of me I wanted nothing more than to be older. To have less life in front of me. I had time to burn and a box of matches. But this was the seventies, the pre-information age, so my longing for the years to pass … Continue reading PEANUTS FOR CHINA
THE ACCIDENTAL HUMAN 