All Old Strange Things

Humans outside time

Some reflections on Ludovic Slimak's 'The Last Neanderthal'

Oct 6 • 

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September 2025

Return to the Beloved City

Vilnius, always

Sep 29 • 

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Paganesque dreams

Reflections on Peter Ross’s ‘Upon A White Horse’

Sep 22 • 

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Return to Brendon Chase

BB and the search for nature

Sep 15 • 

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The Gournay, not the destination

On the elusiveness of Iron Age shrines in Britain and Gaul

Sep 8 • 

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Oracles from the Pleroma of Data

Generative AI and the dawning new epistemology

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

On recording everything

The perils of too much self-writing

Aug 25 • 

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Lithuanian tales #4, ‘Solstice’

This is another of my ‘Lithuanian Tales’, written in early 2001 but never previously published.

Aug 18 • 

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Faith under totalitarianism

Not long ago I was speaking to someone who told me he had discovered, during archival research, that his own grandmother was one of 17,000 Lithuanians…

Aug 11 • 

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Into the fairy toot

One of the most remarkable archaeological experiences it is still possible to have in Britain (thanks to the care of English Heritage, Cadw, Historic…

Aug 4 • 

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July 2025

Saved by dinosaurs

How 'Jurassic Park' turned around my education

Jul 28 • 

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‘The strong gods are back’: is paganism a threat to Britain?

On 17 July the MP for East Wiltshire, Danny Kruger, delivered a speech to an almost empty House of Commons that has attracted rather more attention on…

Jul 21 • 

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