GEOFF NICHOLSON: THE LONG LOST WALKER

D.J. Waldie (that's him above) is a pedestrian and the author of   Holy Land: a Suburban Memoir , an excellent book   about growing up a...

  I was reading about Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1662), philosopher, writer, begetter of the Baconian method of scientific investigation, and l...

  Sometimes I like to think that walking is an abstract, immaterial activity without any end product.     You go out, you come back, and alt...

  In the interests of half-arsed research I typed ‘walking wrong’ into Google and wasn’t very  surprised by what I found – this kind of thin...

PHOTO BY CAROLINE GANNON Sometimes it seems to me that people only buy weekend newspapers so they can be told that they’re doing things wron...