Not what it seems

Now that the England football team has exchanged sand for snow, it’s high time I revisited the matter I addressed…

Caveat lector

As a long-term subscriber to more than one magazine, I’m perennially fascinated by the phenomenon of journalism. The conclusion I’ve…

Sport is good at throwing up very public examples of the human brain in action. The recently ended World Cup…

Now that spring is here and the clocks have gone forward, it’s time for a break from blogging. I’ve been…

I once visited a place in southern Italy called Paestum, which used to be a major Greek settlement long before…

One of the more curious mental phenomena in Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables is the one covered by the 92nd Fable,…

My 37th Fable, ‘The Foolish Monkeys’, concerns superstition. It tells the story of a group of simians who decide to…

The biggest celebrity story of the week was probably Katy Perry’s Brit Awards protest. I admit that I know little…

Asked for his opinion of ‘Old Bunyard’s Philosophick Fables’, a psychology professor recently offered a compliment and some suggestions before…

I recently watched a surprisingly good 1950 movie called ‘Three Came Home’, concerning the real-life experiences of an American journalist…