Great piece from The Times on Arthur Miller, written by Erica Wagner. Thanks to John Naughton for the link. Why the 20th century was the century of Arthur Miller His dramatisation of the 17th-century Salem witch trials has continuing resonances…

What a terrible shame. ABC News: Playwright Arthur Miller Dies

Not much fro me today – sorry. As if anyone is reading anyway! Have the ‘flu and it’s vile. Okay, probably not the ‘flu. But a very nasty virus. I am at the same time freezing and sweating, which isn’t…

Rosie Originally uploaded by theclosedcircle. Here’s a recent-ish picture of Rosie the rabbit. Okay, so it’s just an excuse to play with Flickr…

Got paid today and so a pretty good haul was the order of the day in Waterstone’s: The Master – Colm Toibin The Wind-up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Marakami Love, Sex & Tragedy – Simon Goldhill The Remains of the…

Apologies for messing people around – if many people are out there reading this – but I have changed the URL of this blog to rather than having it in the /blog subdirectory. I have included an automatic forwarder…

A tough one today. I understand that Megson is likely to play 3-5-2 again, with Wes Morgan and Andy Reid back from injury: Gerrard; Doig, Morgan, Dawson; Louis-Jean, Derry, Reid, Commons, Rogers; King, Taylor. Hopefully he won’t be playing David…

Not a great weekend for Forest. A 2-1 home defeat against Millwall leaves us further in the mire. The usual cliche about a new manager bringing with him a few points clearly isn’t a truism as well. I was disappointed…

Top journo and Palimpsest resident William Shaw now has a blog:

Ohmygod. Another 4 years of George W. Bush as the most powerful man in the world. Well, the second maybe, after Bill Gates. Anyway. Even as a conservative (small ‘c’! small ‘c’!) kind of guy, Bush fills me with loathing.…