Blogs about: You Young People
Featured Blog
Young bones groan
Just recently, I’ve got heavily into traditional music – specifically, traditional English, Scottish and Irish music. One of the effects has been to make me feel a bit ambivalent about the… more →
The gaping silence
Young bones groan
— 8 comments
Phil wrote 1 year ago: Just recently, I’ve got heavily into traditional music – specifically, traditional Engli … more →
A system and a theory
— 2 comments
Phil wrote 1 year ago: WorldbyStorm: Once Blair et al dreamed of a hegemonic project that would dominate the centre left fo … more →
My silly Cuban heels
— 4 comments
Phil wrote 1 year ago: A bit more oneirography (I don’t intend to make a habit of it). I had a dream last night which … more →
Taller than him
— 11 comments
Phil wrote 1 year ago: Or: my life as a biographer. Rob asked about my reference to writing a biography of Debord. It goes … more →
Says there's none
— 1 comment
Phil wrote 1 year ago: Jamie picks up on a handy new proposal for making use of all those ex-servicemen the Iraq war is eve … more →
No king can compare
— 1 comment
Phil wrote 1 year ago: A post-Christmas meme from Rob. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper. Bags are for bottles … more →
Anyway, I hate divorces
Phil wrote 2 years ago: I turned 47 recently. Yes, that is quite old. Lines from Krapp’s Last Tape come to mind, as th … more →
Some time, maybe
Phil wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been away for a week & come back to a letter from my MP, Tony Lloyd. Who writes: Whil … more →
And young boys
— 2 comments
Phil wrote 2 years ago: If not his epitaph – that would be a bit harsh – it was his epithet; the film posters on … more →
melt into men
— 4 comments
Phil wrote 2 years ago: I heard the news about 8.30 last night; my wife saw it on the BBC Web site. I spent some time lookin … more →
God save history
— 5 comments
Phil wrote 2 years ago: Andy: It is inevitable that there will be a debate about our English identity, and the values that w … more →
Wrapped in paper (7)
— 1 comment
Phil wrote 2 years ago: More from the last century. This one had a wider audience than many of my columns, as it appeared in … more →
My notebook and my limit
— 1 comment
Phil wrote 2 years ago: A while ago Rob passed me the meme stick with a couple of questions deriving from Big Brother: Tell … more →
171.69
— 1 comment
Phil wrote 3 years ago: The British land speed record currently stands at 300.3 mph. It doesn’t look as if Richard Ham … more →
I'll see you in my dreams
— 7 comments
Phil wrote 3 years ago: My mother died this morning. She was 84. She was brought up in the Plymouth Brethren, a Protestant g … more →
And feel your lumps
— 2 comments
Phil wrote 3 years ago: Go and sit upon the grass and I shall come and sit beside you… Back in the early seventies a c … more →
Meme II
— 1 comment
Phil wrote 4 years ago: Or: I’ll be your mirror. Or: I got it from Clare. Not so much a chain letter as a chain interv … more →
Happy in his work
— 2 comments
Phil wrote 4 years ago: It’s true what they say about Oxbridge. I spent three years at Cambridge doing little more tha … more →
Not moving any mountain
Phil wrote 4 years ago: Two days to go till the election. Right then: let’s talk about religion. I’ve done Islam … more →
