I was lucky enough to see Marina Abramovic at the Southbank on Sunday. Despite gripping Olympic athletics on every screen in London, beautiful riverside sunshine and a general Sunday afternoonishness,…

Scientific endeavours in my lifetime have included major advances in the understanding of how our emotions are organised in our brain – ‘affective neuroscience’ is a fairly new term that…

Heart of the Angel (1989) is a brilliant documentary by (I think genius) Molly Dineen. It takes a close look at those who kept the, then, indescribably decrepit Angel station…

Raymond Tallis has a deeply impressive polymathic brain (if that word is possible). A poet, medical doctor, novelist, philosopher, cultural commentator, and ‘ontological atheist’, he is also a very likeable…

The Freud Museum is now showing original documents from Bourgeois’ recently discovered psychoanalytic writings, as well as drawings, dream recordings, lists, sketches, notes and sculptures. It’s well worth a visit…

Christopher Logue, poet, author and sometime park keeper and actor died on 2 December last year, aged 85. I knew little about him, this obit told me more. I later…