Para mi Alma. When I was 5 I saw Father Christmas. I know what you’re already thinking: I saw my…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I6UB8aL4V8 I made a couple of mistakes here – for instance it should have been Birbal, not Bilal, in the…

So way back in the 1930’s when Alekhine was the world chess champion, having recently defeated the great Capablance for…

What does it take for us to risk our lives in defence of what we value? We’ve seen protesters in…

The novelist, Jonathan Franzen, gave a commencement address at Kenyon College this year and it was such powerful stuff that…

I think I owe a good deal of my nomadic existence to a kid’s television program from the 80’s called…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlrW_r3k1Q You’re the flame in the fire, dancing free, Ignite my desire, how I long to be Your lover, but…

I finally managed to write a song about the Rainbow without any irony in it…. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8avP7BmJU0 Thanks to Yasmin for…

You think of a navigator and you picture someone bent over charts and maps, studying a sextant and making longhand…

The strength of character shown here by Sinead O’Connor really blew me away. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4fVxcT00Sc She was due to sing at…

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One man’s forlorn message to the world, painted on concrete and lasting for years.

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Theo Jansen makes herds of beasts out of plastic tubes that will live their lives on beaches, powered by the wind.

These are some of the songs I’ve written about the rainbow gatherings. When I first started going to rainbows I…

With the wonderful artwork of Daniela Petrozzi, this is my first comic – a voyage through themes of hitchhiking, immigration,…

A story of the trickster god, Loki, and how too much goodness and purity is just asking for trouble.

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…