Kester Brewin

“I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of it’s own unfolding.“ These words of the late John O’Donohue have been on my mind recently, perhaps because of an awareness of my distance from this life-place he describes. If my life were a water-course, it sometimes feels like a concrete [...]

Exactly 40 years ago Apollo 11 began its mission to send the first human beings onto another body in space – perhaps the most important and profound achievement in the history of mankind. Only twelve men ever achieved this, but for the first time we had transcended, albeit momentarily, the physicality of the planet we [...]

I happened across the Anthony Gormley ‘piece’ in London’s Trafalgar Square today: ‘One and Other.’ The idea is presented on a plaque: There is a live stream of what is going on at any one time here. Here (19:15 on 15th July) we see a woman dressed up as a lollipop lady waving at people: [...]

David Cameron – currently oppostion leader in the UK, but likely to be Prime Minister this time next year – announced a worrying policy today: the recipients of UK Overseas Development aid could be partly decided in an ‘X-Factor’ style public vote. Apparently this will initially begin with a small percentage of the overall budget, [...]

Sorry it’s been quiet around here recently. Had my head down writing for various things – poems, books, copy for Greenbelt, discussions about Vaux Mk II – and also spent a few fully analogue days in the hills helping lead a Duke of Edinburgh Award trip. All good. One thing I’ve been meaning to do [...]

Really, this video is quite amazing. A Fox News discussion, in which the interviewee claims that: “The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama Bin Laden to detonate a major weapon in the United States.“ and that, “Only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that [...]