SIX ACCIDENTAL MOMENTS ON GREAT RECORDS / OH COMELY 10/08/201719/09/2019Jason Ward The crucial difference between songs and records is that a song is an idea and a record is a thing. The clue’s in
ASSASSINATION VACATION / OH COMELY 10/08/201725/09/2017Jason Ward Knowledge in everyday life so often arrives wearing the garments of the pub bore, the explainer who behaves as if they somehow own
SIX PETS WITH CONSTITUTIONAL POWER / OH COMELY 21/06/201725/09/2017Jason Ward The relentless electioneering of recent years has been exhausting and demoralising, but politics isn’t wholly bleak: it will always be funny, at least,
THE END OF ENDINGS / OH COMELY 21/06/201722/09/2017Jason Ward I was 27 when I first learned that The Beatles is a pun. Even though I’ve known how to spell “beetle” for some
HOW TO GET KICKED OUT OF A MUSEUM / OH COMELY 21/06/201722/09/2017Jason Ward My lack of a criminal past owes more to cowardice than an abundance of virtue. I’ve always been uncomfortable with the prospect of
DOING THINGS IN THE DARK / OH COMELY 13/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward It’s late. Very late. Extremely late. So late it’s early, as your aunt used to say. Instead of trying to get back to
SIX UNLIKELY UPRISINGS / OH COMELY 13/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward It’s possible to wake up one day and completely change the world. Yes! We have it within us to see something amiss in
THE FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE / OH COMELY 13/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward One of the hardest parts of growing up takes place years after the actual growing up. It comes when you revisit a person
INFREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS #5: PINING FOR THE FJORDS / OH COMELY 12/04/201719/09/2019Jason Ward You die on a Tuesday, which surprises you for several reasons. Over the years before that fateful weekday you had generally avoided contemplating
SURPRISINGLY STRONG THINGS / OH COMELY 06/04/201722/09/2017Jason Ward The reed bends with the wind, so says the parable, while the oak tree breaks in the storm. This is a lesson about
