If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever,’ said O’Brien, the grand inquisitor of the totalitarian regime in Orwell’s futuristic novel 1984.
Alternatively, you could imagine a sandal. Last month I visited Sutton Hoo, the famous Anglo-Saxon burial site of a king and his ship in Suffolk…
‘As a rule, I have found that the greater brain a man has, and the better educated, the easier it has been to mystify him.’ So said master illusionist Harry Houdini. He said it during his spat with Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over the latter’s belief in seances and fairies. Despite being a literary genius, Conan Doyle nevertheless had some foolish ideas…
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