WORKS WELL IS NOW DEFUNCT, BEYOND ITS SELL-BY DATE, LATE, PASSED-ON, ETC, AND ITS AUTHOR, MUCH TO HIS AMAZEMENT, HAS FOUND AN EXTRA-CELESTIA...

I never need more than one encouragement to publicise any of my novels, and that's what earlybird has suggested. (See Comment, "Wor...

DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) has just reported: now almost wholly irrelevant, Works Well will fall off this Fl...

My circadian rhythms are shot to pieces. Several months ago I began rising at 6.30 am to start “messing about upstairs with your - ie, my - ...

Antipathies – with reasons Music: Berlioz (Edgy, unsettling, unmelodious). Verdi operas (Cumbersome, self-regarding, self-referential, ov...

Old age encourages me to hand out advice but I’m really not entitled. Take my employment record in journalism. I started work in 1951 and ex...

Didn't get this right first time. Changes in red. Yesterday, on the 9.10 am from Newport to London Paddington a woman had plugged in her...

Sneering at mobile phone users appears to be waning. Perhaps most of us now have mobiles and have discovered that the sentence “I’m on the t...