The study of leadership rather than an obsession with it is a vital task. It is the latter which produces what we too often call ‘leaders’ in contemporary life, who are, in brief, people who abuse relative power over others in order to assert a line of action whose success they alone are allowed to … More Leadership must be the object of reflection, I think, not just based on the assumption that leaders are needed.

My photograph of page 12-13 Jean E. Mills (2024) ‘Gertrude Stein’ in Richard Scneider Jr. (ed.) ‘Outer Appearances: More Faces from the Annals of the G&LR’ (a retrospective on the art of Charles Hefling),  Illustrated by Charles Hefling. Pages 32f., Like most people who do it, I communicate too much online. Some who do it pretend … More ‘There ain’t no answer. … That’s the answer’.

I truly write for myself most of the time, I claim, and most often there there is no intentional untruth or even known self-delusion in that statement. Not reading, and now writing about my reading, has become a need – to evidence, as I have always put it that I am learning and growing in … More How often I must have said: ‘I just don’t feel heard’. But perhaps that is because I didn’t look out for responses. Mea culpa.

Have your even seen ‘old Durham Town’? Not till Ben Myers showed it to me again! The role of art in turning places into spaces in which the imagined can dwell. Geoff and I are just on our way to see Poor Things, an exceedingly well-received film in the newspapers based on one of my … More Have your even seen ‘old Durham Town’: Not till Ben Myers showed it to me again! The role of art in turning places into spaces in which the imagined can dwell.

This trip involved stops in Athens, Delphi, Mystra, Yithion, and Olympia before a return home.Unforgettable and eventful, I can barely think how to describe it, for the memory is, I think, enough. The highlight remains Athens though Delphi and Olympia absorbed me as they have many others and in may accounts – in novels like … More The Peloponnese to Athens, Thebes, Delphi, (vis Arcadia) Mystra, Sparta, the Mani, Olympia. Return to the East coast

Once we normalise play and rid ourselves of ‘Bunbury’, then at last play loses its integrity in order to be just playing Earnest (not fun): Queer play in Christopher Marlowe, Michelangelo & Oscar Wilde I am intrigued by this question and have always been interested as a student of literature, history. art and psychology in … More Once we normalise play we ‘Bunbury’ it and it is at last play in Earnest (not fun): Queer play in Christopher Marlowe, Michelangelo & Oscar Wilde