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I have a piece in the latest issue of the Review of Contemporary Fiction ("Awesome, or The Internet as Consolation"). There will b...

When the Protection from Harassment Act was being debated, campaigners warned that a bill whose ostensible purpose was to protect women fro...

xkcd has a terrific graphic (with disclaimer) on different levels of radiation exposure, here .

I'm going over to Washington tomorrow for a few weeks to visit my mother, who has had another operation; probably going up to New York ...

A town has emptied its library in a bid to fight plans to close it down. People in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, hav...

Readers of pp will know that this time last year I was staying in Silver Spring with my mother, who had had an operation. She went in for a...

A reader sent me a link to a video of a poem he wrote and performs.