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In this essay I examine the process of making meaningful places through a consideration of the life geographies of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg, two former residents of the Blackwater marshes, Essex. The essay begins by outlining how the cultural tradition of the west has tended to present marshes as marginal locations, and marshland landscapes as problematically ambiguous, and it shows how this characterization has influenced accounts of the Blackwater marshlands. I then introduce and examine the lives of Norman Angell and Tom Driberg: the former a Nobel Peace Prize winner, a solitary man for whom Northey Island provided a retreat from a threatening world; the latter a leftist politician and journalist, an extrovert who lived a colourful life in Bradwell on Sea. While both men came to the marshes as outsiders, they ended by making for themselves meaningful life geographies in the marshland, their struggles engaging with the symbolic, imaginary, and real components of the landscape. I conclude by proposing that Angell and Driberg’s life geographies indicate that, like the marshlands, landscape might best be understood as neither necessarily solid nor liquid in identity, but as a contingent process formed by local negotiation.

  Sir, - Your Editorial \"Cameron's purge\" (July 17th) regrets the lack of a typeface making clear when the rhetorical device of irony is being employed.

ONE of those fabulously absurd episodes of the original series in which Kirk and co discover a planet that's just like Earth -- but with a twist. On Magna Roma, it appears the Roman Empire never fell and the crew find themselves fighting for survival as gladiators. No doubt Spock's trademark nerve pinch will come in handy. THE Brighton Centre -- which hosted the final of the Premier League in 2007 -- is the venue for the seventh round of this year's roundrobin competition. We're talking double-Dutch tonight, as the Holland giant Raymond van Barneveld takes on compatriot Jelle Klaasen. GREY'S ANATOMY, 10pm, Living WHOEVER is behind this new slice of life with the Walker clan has a surreal sense of fun. Consider: Nigel Havers appears as Saul's backslapping buddy; Justin is taken to Coop's class for show and tell; and there's a large man talking to Kitty about her book, pretending to be Barbara Walters. All that, linked by a series of strange dream sequences as a post-op Kevin drifts in and out of consciousness, trying to puzzle out what having a daughter really means. Brilliant stuff.

ONE of those fabulously absurd episodes of the original series, in which Kirk and co discover a planet that's just like Earth -- but with a twist. On Magna Roma, it appears the Roman Empire never fell and the crew find themselves fighting for survival as gladiators. No doubt Spock's trademark nerve pinch will come in handy.. WHILE best known as the host of the much-missed Fifteen To One, and the producer of other fine game shows (Family Fortunes, The Price Is Right), William G. Stewart was once the private secretary to [TOM DRIBERG] -- the colourful Labour MP who allegedly had ties with the KGB. This came as a surprise to Stewart. Did the man he called a friend really betray his country? With an intriguingly personal slant, he explores Driberg's links to the spy Guy Burgess and the post-war bohemian scene. WHOEVER is behind this new slice of life with the Walker clan has a surreal sense of fun. Consider: Nigel Havers appears as Saul's backslapping buddy; Justin is taken to Coop's class for show and tell; and there's a large man talking to Kitty about her book, pretending to be Barbara Walters. All that, linked by a series of strange dream sequences as a post-op Kevin drifts in and out of consciousness, trying to puzzle out what having a daughter really means. Brilliant stuff.

Just down the road in the lavatories of Soho Mr Tom Driberg (Sir Tom Driberg, Lord Driberg) used to go cruising for teenage pick-ups to indulge his whims. The Met used to disengage the chairman of the Labour Party (under Harold Wilson) from his pleasures, warn off the rent boy and gently escort Driberg home. The press never said a word either.

Tom Driberg, Labour MP and newspaper columnist, writes in his diary: \"`In a drear-nighted December...' But was last night's great fog so drear? To the true London perambulator, these nights enhance the Whistlerian romance of his city.

During the Sixties, one of Father's closest friends was the notorious Labour minister Tom Driberg, later elevated to the peerage as Lord Bradwell. Elevated though his position may have been, his behaviour was not. Driberg was a showy homosexual who was alleged to be a Soviet agent. Father doubted this, saying his startling indiscretions and rampant promiscuity would have been too much even for the Russians. But misfits and renegades were often the very people the Soviets did approach on the grounds that they were seldom suspected.

[TOM DRIBERG] remained on the back-benches - anti-bomb, anti-Vietnam, supporting (on one occasion) the legalization of cannabis. Together with Ian Mikardo, he formed the Tribune group. He had many friends, but no intimates. He died lonely. The title of the last chapter in this high-spirited book - whose diverting style is reminiscent of the way Tom Driberg talked - sums it up. It is called \"The First and Last Lord [BRADWELL].\" \"In the mid-1950s,\" it says, \"an ear-nose-and-throat man cured him {Driberg} permanently with cautery - a whiff of anesthetic cocaine up the nostrils, followed by a red-hot wire to seal off the nasal nerve-ends. No pain, and no more sneezes.\"

Tucked away on [Dave], these two overseas shows provide better new comedy than most of our homegrown fare. Australia's Chandon Pictures charts talentless Tom Chandon's unsuccessful attempts to turn every job his video camera gets him - weddings, surveillance, school speech, etc - into a feature documentary. Work-based comedy Factory's cast is made up of graduates from Stephen Colbert-scripted comedies Strangers With Candy and Exit 57, performers who know their way around a joke. As it's improvised, this has them daring to go with their instincts, resulting in frequent hilarity.