As many of you know, I am setting off on Monday for a 1,000 mile walk from Lymington to Cape Wrath. A bit bonkers, but it’s not exactly...

These are weird times, and you may therefore like to consider the Lizardman Constant. It is a theory developed by the American polling...

One of the least helpful answers in all of history has to be God’s, given to Moses at the burning bush, when the latter asked him who he...

Human progress is erratic, meaning that, whilst it tends to go in a vaguely constant direction, it does not go in a straight line. From...

You may not be familiar with the term, but the ‘house edge’ is that rule which dictates that the casino never loses. Not at roulette, not...

I’m not sure what possessed me, other than that it was my turn to cook that evening, and it was clear that our glut of courgettes were...

As soon as it was explained to me by the Prime Minister back in the spring that it was my job to ‘protect the NHS’ and not vice-versa as...

There have been very few Nigels in my life, unless you count my colleague and friend in the army all those years ago. However, he...

It wasn’t meant to be like this. I’d swallowed a nut the wrong way on the drive into Midhurst and was having a coughing fit in the queue...

For the first six Saturday nights of lockdown, we ran an online quiz, of which one early question was: ‘how many people work for the...

Seven weeks ago, I made a catastrophic error of judgment. I think that it is a mark of these more self-aware days that we are fortunate...

‘Every tomorrow,’ wrote Henry Ward Beecher, ‘has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety, or the handle of faith.’...

In order to make it easier to read, the Wuhan Diary is now presented in reverse chronological order, so you only read the catch-up bits....

Day 90: Psalm 151 Percuniam Pro Hominibus And on the ninetieth day, I walked out into the sand of the shadow of the Valley of Death, and...

COVID-19 IN VERSE AND PROSE Surrealist thoughts for a surrealist time. In The Beginning Day 1: A Bat with a Cough One late Autumn day on...

Both sides of my working life have, for the time being, fallen completely by the wayside, and I have therefore signed up as a drug...

In this strange new world, where an aeroplane is an event once again, I am learning fast. One of the things that I am learning is that I...

To each experience, a new vocabulary. Up in our bedroom we look at each other in strange ways during that first early morning cough....

Something rather wonderful is happening in our new Pontius Pilate world of hand-washing. Bear with me, because first we need to go...

I fear that my dogs are becoming woke. Once red in tooth and claw, you could point to anything sweet, small, furry and with a functioning...