Like all right-listening folk, I am an implacable enemy of all muzak.

So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Why is Mr Universe always from Earth?

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.