No-nonsense words

My personal Substack. If you have enjoyed my books or articles you will find stuff here which interests you. Recent posts include a lecture on Eliot given at Little Gidding, and memories of Iris Murdoch.

For those who are saying "enough is enough" with this anxiety thing!

An itinerant artist, writing from the road.

Our Current Newsletter is Ovid's Fasti, running from December 31, 2022 to June 30, 2023.

We join the dots between beer and travel

An insider’s rants on what went wrong with environmentalism, and what's next.

Storytelling about rock pop music and culture through decades of interviews, reviews, and feature stories, shaken in a blender. Might be Steely Dan, Dylan, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, boygenius. Might be Laura Nyro, Suzanne Vega, the Ramones.

Wisdom from the Old World to the New

Demystifying the travel media

Original stories about Asia by a British Hongkonger

The history and politics of monopoly power.