Comment, Ideas & Writing

Welcome to QuartzSphinx

This is a site dedicated to comment. ideas and creative writing. We hope you will enjoy the very varied range of material gathered here.

The site has the following sections - not all of them fully populated as yet: (be patient, we have lives to live):

Ideas

Articles and essays from our contributors on philosophical, political and social topics.

Criticism

Ceirical writing on music, film, literature and more.

Writing

Crerative writing - poetry, novels and travel writing

Mathematics

Mathematics textbooks by Ian A Ferguson, free to download

Spirituality

Articles and essays on topics which fall under the general description of "spiritual"

IanMetropolis Blog

An occasional and generally controversial blog on current issues authored by Ian Metropilis

Here in old London town, some years ago when then mayor Bozo the Clown (currently enjoying an unlikely and undistinguished tenure as Foreign Secretary, of all things) was campaigning to be elected, he battened on to the idea of doing away with the useful, high-capacity articulated buses (the “bendybus”) which had been introduced and replacing them with something else.

Bad Medicine

I’ve wanted to get this off my chest for some time, so it will make an excellent first post for this blog. Some years ago, after keeping well clear of them for several decades, I had cause to visit a doctor in order to obtain treatment for an eye condition. I subsequently entered a kind of “through the looking glass” world where I was bounced around from one hospital consultant to another, tested for conditions of which I displayed no symptoms at all, and suffered repeated attempts to foist unwanted and unnecessary medications on me,