Apropos of poets laureate , I was the other day listening to a recording of Ted Hughes reading February 17 , which describes in horror-porn...

No sooner have I left the big house than it is invaded by crazed philosophers. I know a thing or two about crazed philosophers. There were ...

Over on Thought Experiments I was challenged by a passer-by to write some verse about the broke bankers. I intended to do something in the s...

It's been so long since I posted I've almost forgotten how. Anyway, I'm making a slight return to blogging, in case anybody stil...

The least worst bits of Think of England... Flotsam The dogs on St Mary Street howl The Bright Lights, the Desolate Shores Men and guns Ed, ...

Introducing Pavement Panto™ Deeper into Pavement Panto™ Teenage Gangs Advanced Gun-Sticking Official recognition for PP on the BBC Der Stra...

...is a time for repeats .

Liverpool and Lyme .

A short autumnal piece has been added to Think of England: The Bonfire Men .

A poetic warning on the dangers of walking in the countryside has been added to ThinkofEngland.co.uk: Up Lansdowne Lane .

A new poem, called Beer Garden , has been added to ThinkofEngland.co.uk.

The most enjoyable (for me) and apparently most popular thing to come out of TofE has been the poetry. I have put the best poems, and some n...

Following the month-long intermission, it seems unlikely that Think of England will be continuing in its traditional rip-roaring, nearly-dai...

There will be an intermission while Think of England recovers its identity. Thank you for your patience.

The Hitch is currently doing the rounds in Blighty, principally plugging his latest Dawkins-esque God-bashing book, but stopping last Thursd...

The Berlin Wall may be long gone but communist East Germany lives on in the form of lovingly maintained Trabant cars and now an old-fashion...