Here’s such a good video, on the Economist site. It’s about the work of Kaveh Golestan, the legendary Iranian snapper, who I met a few months before he died in Iraq in 2003.

A robust response to the piece below.

At the heart of In Search of the English Eccentric was the idea that a growing number of behaviours are no longer seen as eccentric but can be classified as a particular disorder. This is a worry.

It means that our pool of eccentricity becomes a puddle. Here’s a worrying piece on the latest developments.

Here’s something from modern-day Tolpuddle, where the spirit of ’34 seems to have gone a little astray. At one point Together had a whole chapter on these legendary scions of Tolpuddle, but it wasn’t to be.

An interview in the Economist with perhaps the most interesting Iranian artist working today. With his brother, he lives in exile in Dubai.