Happy to loan more space to my landlord Richard Heller to reproduce the speech by the Tony Blair character in his 2005 Beckettian drama...

A full house of memories  will always beat a flush of success – except for those who played it straight. Your life will sometimes be...

My landlord and editor Richard Heller hopes to create a coalition of the willing to mock Dotard Trump on his (still) forthcoming state...

Spring is here: take a gamble on a gambol.   Spring is here: every worm has its turn.   Spring is here: it lasts longer when you share it.

Your dreams are an architect’s drawing. You have to lay the foundations and put up the scaffolding.

So it's your fiftieth birthday? Raise some L!

You are your own work of art. You don't have to join the dots or paint by the numbers of anyone else.

Your birthday may be over but you still have 364 re-birthdays left if you want them. And you need not wait four years to leap.

You are an egg. You may be a good one or a bad one, but even in a bad one parts of you are excellent. No one will know that you are a...

Your mind is a hotel. You are the owner and manager. It’s your right and duty to keep out obnoxious and threatening visitors.

Cut All Low Moods Cherish All Light Moments

My story, composed with the help of my poetic friend, kafkaa roach, in the year when four reindeer left Santa for better-paid jobs in...

When rage and misery become your 'new normals' start an exercise programme and work on your abs.

The milk of human kindness curdles only when you chill it.   You are the captain of your soul. Your first mate may know better, but you...

Proud to support the bid of my landlord and editor Richard Heller to become the first Anti-Chancellor of Oxford University MM My...

Donald Trump may have carried 31 states. You are not one of them. You are the President and Commander-in-chief of your Republic. Keep it...

For us in the UK, Greenwich Mean Time is back. Do, please, pretty please with lots of cheese, support my campaign to rename it Greenwich...

When life gives you nothing but hard cheese,  be proud that  you never whined over the rind.   If you get the blues, make  them...

We cannot all be meteors. Some of us are planets, planetoids and even satellites. But none of us have to turn our backs on the Sun,

Calm. Calmer. Karma.