Nick Page

I’m always intrigued by ingenuity in fitting a lot of living into a small space. Claire and I started out our married life in a bedsit, our living room was our bedroom. I wish we’d had this kind of furniture. I love the desk that converts into a bed. It would enable me to combine [...]

Great story from the G20 summit today, when the Toronto Police put on a display of the dangerous weapons they had confiscated from protestors. The display was designed to respond to criticism of their heavy-handling of protestors and included a machete and baseball bat to bear spray and crowbars. the police chief particularly drew attention [...]

Watching the world cup with all its usual English hysteria. The Germans look annoyingly good, however they do have a player called Schweinsteiger and, childish though it is, every time I hear that word I think of this scene from Young Frankenstein. He’s a good player. It goes without saying.

Hamstergate. Part 3000007. As some of you may know, a couple of weeks ago the hamster went missing (again). She’d previously escaped for nine weeks before being recaptured. Anyway, As if a missing hamster wasn’t enough, two days ago we came down to find that the hose to the dishwasher had been chewed through and [...]

The author of the Wallander series, was on board the convoy heading to Gaza. This is his record of events. And something of an alternative account here.

A friend of mine described his iPhone as a ‘transformational device’. He said it had changed the way that he worked and lived. I feel the same way about this iPad. Just a few minutes spent working on it convinced me that things were going to change – most notably in my industry, the publishing [...]

They’ve been breaking up the protest camp in Parliament Square. Can’t have the people take over a public space, after all. And it might upset the Queen as she drives by. Might scare the horses. But what is the point of Parliament Square if not to provide a place for alternative views? Boris Johnson, Mayor [...]

Last week the wife and I went to Leveller’s Day at Burford. The event is held in commemoration of the Levellers killed there by Cromwell in 1649. This year the theme was about food sustainability and the speakers gave some fascinating facts. Here are just a few of the thought-provoking nuggets which I jotted down. [...]

Why bank bonuses truly are an issue of morality. Goldman Sachs clearly thought they were exercising heroic self-denial by awarding themselves a compensation pool amounting to a mere $16.2 billion. Haiti’s total GDP is $7 billion, and even before the earthquake one child in eight died before its fifth birthday; imagine Goldman turning over half [...]

The Grauniad has a photo gallery of Holy Week processions around the world, including a huge number of Spanish pentitents wearing large pointy hoods.(There’s an older set of pictures here.) There’s another fascinating gallery here. Some of the penitent/flagellant stuff is on the morbid side of extreme, but we do well to remind ourselves that [...]