John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome, aged 25, two hundred years ago today. Requiescat in pace. Whenever I think of famous dead...

Alfred North Whitehead is often (mis-) quoted as saying that all philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato. I was asked the other day...

I met him when I was eleven or twelve, because one of his sons was in my class. He arrived in a Rolls Royce, talked affably in the...