I have always loved this Robert Frost poem, even as a teenager, before I really took on board its wider implications. I was particularly reminded of it this week, as a result of the power of the internet in general, and Google in particular. Between 1970...

If you read the British press, I'm sure you'll have seen a great deal about this subject recently, and today there was more of it in the Guardian. Apparently, Gordon Brown is against relaxing the law on assisted suicide - i.e. whether or not relatives...

I like the mutual back scratching of this blogging business. A while back, my good friend Clifton Chadwick, sent me details of his new blog, and so, when I set this one up, I gave him a mention in my 'Links' section. Jokingly, I sent him an email asking...

This is just a quick note to say that the blog is now a webpage. You may access it directly by going to http://www.paulrogers.biz

I've been sorting out my hard disc today, deleting all kinds of rubbish, saving other stuff that might be useful in future. In the process, I came upon two poems, both downloaded via Google at some point in the past, because they were old friends and...

Last night, I watched a BBC documentary about Salman Rushdie and his 10-odd years of living in fear of his life because of the Fatwa imposed by Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran. It raised all sorts of questions . Principally, these were concerned with freedom...

I remember many years ago, a teacher saying to me that "The Dead" (the last story in Joyce's Dubliners) was the finest short story ever written in English. I duly read it (in fact, all of Dubliners) and failed to see what all the fuss was about. Funny...

Hello, and welcome to my blog! As a complete novice to this, please expect a few glitches until I get a bit more confident. I thought that seeing I will shortly be off to Saudi Arabia, and living on my own for a couple of months, I might usefully occupy...