Thinking

Posts on books, music, philosophy and anything else.

2018

Taking a break from blogging as I know it Dec 31, 2018
For RP: Ditch your accent and your regional pride May 30, 2018
The town with no centre Feb 18, 2018
Sickness in/as The Fall and Mark E Smith Feb 14, 2018

2017

Esoteric Ipswich Nov 26, 2017
Idoli Jul 03, 2017
Jaki Liebezeit Jan 23, 2017

2016

Work if you want to Nov 05, 2016
Note to self – keep all your data OS agnostic and in the cloud, and don't live your life on your phone May 30, 2016
Post no. 222 Jan 16, 2016
Photography and other Jan 01, 2016

2015

Ambiguity Sep 02, 2015
Dieter Moebius, 1944–2015 Jul 26, 2015
A film about Austerlitz Mar 22, 2015
The news isn’t free but we act as if it is Mar 21, 2015

2014

Mr Turner Nov 22, 2014
Writing to order Sep 18, 2014
Bring on the fan fiction (even if I won't read it) Sep 16, 2014
Smart dumbphones and classic iPods Sep 12, 2014
Write edit build publish edit build republish Sep 08, 2014
I get better as I get older Sep 04, 2014
Outliving Facebook Aug 30, 2014

2013

Morrissey, you and me Oct 20, 2013
iPads in classrooms Oct 05, 2013
Notes on Pnin Jul 21, 2013
HHhH and the value of print May 06, 2013
Krautrock Jan 06, 2013
A world without work Jan 06, 2013

2012

Borgen (or how the British don't do serious politics) Dec 30, 2012
The rhetoric of hard work Dec 16, 2012
Time Dec 13, 2012
Debt Nov 18, 2012
Ghost towns Nov 04, 2012
My favourite book Oct 14, 2012
Sunday Oct 07, 2012
Teachers don't read Oct 06, 2012
Paradise Lost Jul 06, 2012
The Rings of Saturn Jul 05, 2012
Polikushka – Or, the lot of a wicked court servant Jul 05, 2012
Patience (After Sebald) Jun 27, 2012
Why nobody mourns the Queen's English Society Jun 14, 2012
Lesson of The Kreuzer Sonata Jun 14, 2012
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman May 09, 2012
A Hero of our Time Apr 27, 2012
Ulysses Apr 04, 2012
Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri rewritten The Communist Manifesto for the twenty-first century? Mar 19, 2012
The Kreuzer Sonata Mar 19, 2012
The Sentry Mar 16, 2012
Bleak House Feb 15, 2012
Good book design is silent Feb 11, 2012
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Feb 09, 2012
The Great God Pan Feb 06, 2012
The Communist Manifesto Feb 05, 2012
Karl Marx Jan 30, 2012
The Emigrants Jan 18, 2012
This is not a novel Jan 17, 2012
Edgar Allan Poe Collected Writings Jan 17, 2012

2011

Free of place and duty Dec 16, 2011
Okies, chavs and responsibility deficits Dec 15, 2011
It's all marketing Sep 02, 2011
Underclass Aug 09, 2011
Age Aug 09, 2011
Nabokov on other writers Mar 25, 2011
The ideas of March Mar 15, 2011
Money Mar 03, 2011
The 18th Conclusion Feb 24, 2011
Dostoevsky, calligraphy and idiocy Feb 23, 2011
Understanding the Ur-Bororo Feb 22, 2011
Stillness in The White Ribbon Feb 12, 2011
95 percent Feb 10, 2011
Paternoster Row Feb 09, 2011
Paternoster Square Feb 06, 2011
Tea Jan 27, 2011
Sorry Jan 27, 2011
J. S. Bach Solo Sonata no. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005 Jan 25, 2011
The Killing (Forbrydelsen) Jan 23, 2011
Why I like Freedom Jan 19, 2011
Piano Quintet in F minor (Franck) Jan 18, 2011
(Un)Creatives Jan 17, 2011

2008

Wainright typography May 19, 2008