Unattended Articles

   I've been giving a lot of thought to why the Arrested Development joke above, where Michael finds a bag in the fridge marked 'DE...

 Okay, a little more about what's happening in US...   B.J. Novak's superb comedy "Vengeance" – released in 2022, but on...

 Here, ol' Unattendees, to celebrate my love  for you all , is a tree giving a little house a hug. Sorry I haven't been postin g m...

"Pound as in the pounding of these zammoths' feet?" "What zammoths? The ones to our right?" "The ones I'm p...

 As America marks Bonfire Night just as we marked Independence Day, let's let it happen and just crawl down a hole, because it's all...

 Those old explanations of ghosts – echoes of a trauma baked into place – is it only human trauma that has that power? Might parks be craw...

  No, not Lembit Öpik. He's just here to introduce the real winner – and, for all I know, only candidate – Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli. Dr. Igor...

 When I first returned to this blog* after Boris Johnson's 2019 election victory I thought I'd just remain on twitter to post links ...

 Yesterday I met Faren (not pictured) and her friends and colleagues in Trafalgar Square to join a human chain across Wesminster Bridge in s...

  No wonder that podium's always doing a double take.   I reached the end of yesterday wondering how I'd managed to get so little do...

NO-ONE RECALLS THAT FATEFUL DAY WHEN, NOT FROM WATER, WOOD, OR CLAY THE NUCLEAR MISSILES FROM THEIR BIRTH HAVE TERRERIZED THE EARTH OUR PREC...

 I only finished reading Marianne Levy's Don't Forget To Scream on Monday so it's too early to say if it's changed my life,...

 Another big scary face. Gemma Brockis sent me this: it's Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party headquarters in 1934. There's a lot ...

 What larks, Pip? These larks!  Time is like butter. When I buy a tub, it seems to remain nearly full for ages, until somehow, suddenly ther...

    Portrait by Lucy Stopford     "Take firm hold of a goose. Yank out a feather. Trim it. Whittle the tip. Dip that in ink, and the on...