"The Temptation of St Anthony" Once I was finally able to stand in front of the triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch that I was fortunate...

The Last Judgement (c. 1500-1505) This is the first of a two-part look at the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, where I talk about everything u...

Some things insist on being written about. On Christmas Day 1975, BBC Two broadcast a studio-based rock musical retelling the Trojan Wars he...

Ten years and counting... I remember writing “16/02/2016” on the box of a spare lightbulb, having just screwed the other two into the light ...

I had been waiting to see the Looney Tunes film “The Day The Earth Blew Up” for longer than I realised, so I was surprised to find my local ...

With so many visions of the future in narrative fiction having proved to be incorrect, mostly because they were written to comment on the pr...

When I started my current administration job in 2012, “Typist” was a title still held by some people, literally typing up instructions and d...