2014
In Parenthesis
A Note of Introduction T. S. Eliot Preface David Jones Part I: The many men so beautiful Part 2: Chambers go off, corporals stay Part 3: Starlight order Part 4: King Pellam’s Launde Part 5: Squat garlands for White Knights Part 6: Pavilions and Captains of Hundreds Part 7: The five unmistakable marks Notes
Rupert Brooke: The Poetical Works
Preface (September 1946) Geoffrey Keynes Note on 1969 edition Geoffrey Keynes Note on inclusion of ‘The Bastille’ in 1974 reprint Geoffrey Keynes
The Blunders of our Governments
To begin with … Blunders, judgment calls and institutions An array of successes Horror Stories Blunders past and present A tax on heads Pensions mis-sold Support for children – or taxpayers? Britain exits the ERM ‘Cool Britannia’ The great training robbery Tax credits and debits Assets unrecovered Farmers fleeced IT – technology and pathology Down …
Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513
Uncertain Inheritors New Kings 1496 and 1497 – War on the Border The Common Condition The Treaty of Perpetual Peace A New Monarchy Renaissance Monarchy – Power Renaissnace Monarchy – Display Henry VIII – The Protected Prince Henry VIII – A Liberated King James IV and the ‘Realization’ of Scottish History Their Renaissance Majesties Seapower …
The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times
Prologue Part One Beginning History Spain Genius Dead Babies God Sex Hunger Filth Crisis Women Bad Dreaming Inferno Part Two The Asylum First Day In the Bin Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry Friendship Mad Women Day Patient The Hostel Part Three Change Separation Cure Stories Endings Epilogue: After the Asylums
Too Much Information
[rtoc] Too Much Information What’s Not to Like about MyLikes? If Everyone Checks the Internet for Everything Then What Happens When the Internet Gets It Wrong? Whatever You Do, Don’t Look the Daily Express in the Eye If it Isn’t One of Your Greatest Hits Don’t Put It On a Greatest Hits Album ‘Music From & …