Editor at the Roost

Lives and Portraits of Remarkable Characters

A short history of The Eccentric - its editors, its publishers, and why, after more than fifty years and three series, it…

Dare To Be Eccentric?

Since the eighteenth century, the Eccentric Club has celebrated originality, fellowship and independent thought. Yet in an age of culture wars, cancellation…

Contradiction in Terms

"Eccentric Club?" – "Isn't there a contradiction in terms?"

Are You Eccentric?

What if eccentricity is not the exception, but the natural condition of being human?

Definitions of Eccentricity

The eccentric does not behave strangely for the sake of it; the eccentric simply refuses to accept that the boundaries drawn by…