Howard tells me he is taking a break from regular contributions to this forum, so I have moved his 'column' from its prominent position.
May I say how much I have welcomed everything he has written here, and how pleasing it is to see his pieces appearing regularly in both Independents, The Word, and elsewhere. He is a very fine writer, able to balance the personal and the objective, always coming up with allusions and references nobody else had thought of.
Hopefully he will return.