London librarian Chris Roberts fills Debbie Elliott in on the three men in the tub as a series on the real meaning of nursery rhymes continues. Roberts is the author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The ...

The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is famous for saying that life can be “Nasty, brutish, and short.” In other words, life is hard, life is difficult and human beings are born into it only to ...

If you don't like rants then perhaps you shouldn't read the rest of this post. I'm writing this on the last day of a visit to the USA and writing it - what's more - in a bit of a state of shock. I was ...