Call to mind, if you will, the halcyon days at the good old university, drinking port and singing along to the Tom Lehrer songs, “Bright … Read More ›
Author: Peter Blair
Peter Blair teaches English Literature and is a senior leader at a boarding school. Educated at the Glasgow Academy and the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, he is probably the only banjo-playing High Church Anglican Scotsman in existence. He writes to explore the metaphysical in an increasingly materialistic world.
Aficionados of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves novels will be aware that black tie (tuxedo for our American cousins) was considered for most of the twentieth century … Read More ›
I confess here and now to a heresy of the gravest theological and ecclesiological ramifications. I enjoyed The Rings of Power. Perhaps I should define … Read More ›
Rare among my countrymen, I love America. I love its open spaces and great cities; I love much of its culture and its music (I … Read More ›
Last year when I took part in a podcast on the nature of literature, the subject of “the most underrated” literature came up. My immediate … Read More ›