Older than Elvis

'The past is a foreign country' is a) one of the best first lines of a book ever, b) a bit of a cliché. But it feels to me much mo...

This time next week I will be unemployed, or workless as our politicians like to say. It’ll be the second time this year I have left a job a...

There was a nice piece by Neil Gaiman in the Guardian this week about why reading is a Good Thing for children, and the rest of us. It o...

The stupidest question I was ever asked in a job interview was ‘What do you expect to be doing in five years’ time?’ I know it’s a standar...

Nick Cave at Glastonbury 2013 (BBC screen shot). There was something I liked after all. I thought I might spend the weekend slagging of...