Broad Oak Magazine

I see we have been here before when I did a post of music ‘The Likely Lads’ would have been listening to in their younger days - https://the...

A front page article in The Times says a study from Cornell University shows that people who are taken in by ‘corporate bullshit’ tend to b...

 “Creativity grows out of two things; curiosity and imagination” - Benny Goodman. Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist an...

Our current Prime Minister is fond of using law as an expression of his autocratic power. A recent government press release states: Eleven ...

This is the music of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. It may not be to everyone’s liking but when I first heard it about 30 years ago it ‘gr...

 A marvellous video tells how China is reversing the progress of a desert that was heading towards Beijing. At first they planted great numb...

 The final ward to declare its result in last Thursday’s local elections in Birmingham was Glebe Farm and Tile Cross. At stake were two coun...