Archive - The Way Of The Dodo

Lazy old arse. The trick, I’m convinced, to writing a lot is to lower one’s standards. Ego slows you down. As such this year I only wrote one…

Dec 21, 2023 •

December 2022

Stuff and Bother, 2022

Books, films and television from the last year

Dec 24, 2022 •

September 2022

On visiting churches, and the religious imagination

Sep 1, 2022 •

April 2022

Two Poems About Greeks

These two poems have a number of similarities: both take as their subject characters heroes of the Trojan war (Odysseus in the first, Achilles in the…

Apr 13, 2022 •

February 2022

He mutters in an empty room...

Feb 27, 2022 •

September 2021

All This Useless Beauty

A matter of perplexity

Sep 26, 2021 •

Contra Giles Fraser on life extension.

Sep 9, 2021 •

Against Abortion

It looks as though the American Ennéarchy might finally be content to return the question of abortion to the political sphere. Judicial supremacy being…

Sep 6, 2021 •

August 2021

The Physicalist's Trilemma

On why simulationism is false and what consciousness tells us about the nature of physics.

Aug 24, 2021 •

On Encountering a Leucistic Peacock in the Churchyard of St. Wystan’s

Aug 20, 2021 •

Denial is underrated. In this case it must have saved me a great deal of worry. When Granddad went into hospital for the third time in six months, I was…

Aug 12, 2021 •

June 2021

The Welbeck Portrait

A Possible Portrait of Shakespeare

Jun 6, 2021 •

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