Adoption is difficult?  Birth is difficult.  During the year ending last March Three thousand and fifty looked after children were adopted. Sixty were classified babies. Two percent. Point twenty of Read more [...]

East. 1pm. I cycle the canal to Viewtube on The Olympic Site. I’m with sixteen young people from the Superhero Project in Ealing. They are an intelligent charming group of young adolescents who would Read more [...]

It’s  satisfying  leaving my apartment in London at 8am and arriving perfectly on time in Manchester. At 12.30pm  I walk through Dark Matters at Whitworth  Art Gallery  to the launch of  Trade Read more [...]

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It made me angry. I’d never heard a poetry reading described as a “sales conference” before.  I wasn’t sure if I was angry because of  the  detached coldness of the  remark from the young  Read more [...]

I called the   Wendy Michener lecture I gave at York University  “Life is not worth living if there is no-one you would die for”. It’s not the snappiest title but it means well. The lecture Read more [...]

I am at York University near Toronto in Canada. I gave the Wendy Michener Lecture last night. Read more [...]

During the year ending last March Three thousand and fifty looked after children were adopted. Sixty were classified babies. Two percent. Point twenty of a percent decrease (approx) on the previous year. Read more [...]

The Economist Books, arts and culture Poetry and the Olympic games Some rhyme and reason at the Olympic Park Oct 17th 2011, 18:10 by E.H. | LONDON SINCE the announcement in 2005 that London Read more [...]