Brian Oxley

‘Inertia of sex could not be overcome without extinguishing the race, yet an immense force, doubling every few years, was working irresistibly to overcome it.’

Was Henry Adams right that the race would be snuffed out not by nuclear Armageddon, ecological disaster, plague, comet, sun-storm etc, but – don’t laugh – the Women’s Movement?

What though it’s...

I think of Edwin Muir in the darkness before dawn at Leuchars Junction commuting to the Food Office in Dundee.

Where had he lost his way, the track of vision lost in chaos as Glasgow swallowed once the track of childhood?

A precarious order collapsed like those houses in St Andrews bombed last night; Kafka, from an interpreter of divine meanings become a writer...