I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.