Unmitigated England

A few weeks ago I promised I'd tell you when the signed and numbered special edition of Preposterous Erections was available. Wel...

I've been reading Ian Nairn's incomparable Nairn's London recently, and mused over his phrase, used a couple of times, of p...

Lamport is a small estate village roughly halfway between Market Harborough and Northampton. On the main road you can see a pair of m...

Well. A very big thankyou to those of you who found me in Gloucestershire yesterday for The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival . I can...

After ten years of gestation it has suddenly run up and tapped me on the shoulder. It seems so long ago now when I said to the person who wa...

In 1979 I had the idea of creating a red poster, just for fun. It was simple; all I had to do was collect anything that was red of a conven...

And so to Brighton. Well, Hove, actually. Although you never really go to one without the other. We turned up on Hove Lawns at 8.30 in the ...