The Lost Child

  Thoughts on Southport   A few instant thoughts – why would a17-year old, of whatever origin, background, ethnicity, suddenly decide to...

 A weapon has recently been patented, by the U.S. navy for some reason, which can record and transmit people's speech back to them, in a...

  Firstly, I want to make clear that any loss of a life is a terrible tragedy. This piece of writing is not belittling that in any way, in f...

  I wrote a novel years ago which was partly about a future people who have no symbolic or verbal language. They only communicate telepathic...

I wrote in my book The Lost Child in Literature and Culture that the lost child figure is a void beneath our world. Symbolically this is ...

18 is the number, the age, in Britain anyway, which denotes leaving childhood. This is also the number of school   ‘shootings’ in the U.S....

Essentially, even if the people that run America and run the world did not deliberately make people shoot fellow school children,...