What ho and all the rest of it.

Brothers and sisters, comrades and friends, welcome to my new humble little blog. It was born more out of curiosity and experimentation rather than any grotesque presumptuousness that anyone would give a fig about what I think. It will remain, too, a work in progress. Quite obviously, I cannot attest to any future success or anything approaching a sizeable and regular readership. The philosopher G.W.F. Hegel wrote that "the owl of Minerva begins its flight only in the gathering darkness." My own owl of Minerva is haplessly flapping around, soon to encounter the windscreen of some 18-wheeler. Perhaps it will be surprisingly popular. Instead, I may just cry pathetically into the night, "to hell with it!", and just post daily updates of my cat staring at her reflection in the oven. I think I could be at this. Then again, I may be unspeakably tedious. Comments and constructive criticism are always welcomed.

You can expect blogging on politics (mainly British and American, with reflections on other places), culture (well, some), and what I will just simply call other stuff. Book reviews.  Music. Impotent confusion. Incomprehension. Half-arsed jokes. Lazily captioned pictures of animals and politicians. Tea.

But anyway, I'll hope we'll both find this worthwhile.