Lorraine Cavanagh
August 3, 2020
A single spider, one of the long-legged variety, is hanging by a thread in an undusted corner of where I am working right now. It seems […]
May 1, 2020
Victorian imagery has contributed significantly, in my opinion, to the sentimentalisation of Christ as the Good Shepherd. I have been looking for images of the bad […]
March 31, 2020
I am not a great Skype enthusiast. I don’t disagree with it in principle. It’s just that I find that it doesn’t quite deliver what it […]
February 29, 2020
Between September 1665 and November 1666, in the village of Eyam, 260 people died of the plague, including a visitor who had come to sell cloth […]
May 25, 2019
Certain species revert to a non-procreative default position when they sense that their collective life is under threat. But not so with human beings. Against all […]
April 2, 2019
“To my supporters and all who stood by me, thank you. By no means am I happy for what I’ve done. I have asked the Lord […]
March 24, 2019
‘To proclaim the need for new ideas has served, in some measure, as a substitute for them’ wrote the economist and diplomat, J.K. Galbraith. If his […]
February 20, 2019
According to one of the Oxford dictionaries, there is a possible link between madness and creativity, a truth born out by a few great artists but […]
February 20, 2019
Somewhere between Nathanial Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne (The Scarlet Letter) and the story of the Prodigal Son we meet Shamima Begum, a nineteen year old mother of […]