How long do you stare at a blank sheet of paper before the words start to form and gain meaning, before the ideas begin to flow and a letter, an article, a short story or dissertation worthy of being called such forms beneath the point of your pen, the tips of your fingers? It seems,Read more
Dear David Grubb, I was came across your collection of poems – From The White Room – recently, trying to find suitable new homes for my collection of books as builders work on my house and push everything to one side and, as is to be expected, not achieving a great deal but dust andRead more
Dear Theresa May, Today I watched the petition against a state visit by Donald Trump to the United Kingdom pass the one million signature mark. As a British citizen and veteran, I signed this petition in the belief that you, as the elected leader of the government, would honour it. In a statement from yourRead more
When someone says they are interested in finding someone else who has an interest in reading books, I am often tempted to think that such an interest is dying out, that we are a breed of people condemned to the history books, to be recalled in future generations as a strange hoard of old-timers withRead more
Dear Donald Trump, Yesterday, 27 January 2017, you signed an Executive Order entitled Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States. In Section One of this Executive Order it is noted: The visa-issuance process plays a crucial role in detecting individuals with terrorist ties and stopping them from entering the United States.Read more
