Pictures of the Haj

Recent Posts

• Cash – the last refuge of scoundrels and little old ladies?
• Postcard from France: under the heat dome
• Self-service, or survival of the fittest?
• Slow is good. Boring is better.
• Postcard from France: beyond the riots, two movies in a small town
• A Coronation homily
• Between night and day – a journey to England
• Postcard from France: in which this writer reflects on his lack of intelligence (or: stupid Anglais)
• In which this writer disappears up his artificially intelligent navel.
• And wherever he went, Genghis Khan left no stone unturned
• I think, therefore AI am?
• C’mon boys, it’s golf, not a coronation
• In the beginning was the word (and things went downhill thereafter)
• Hello Donald my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
• Hello Donald my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
• ChatGPT and the wrath of human blight (or should it be the blight of human wrath?)
• Saying Hi to AI – a very short-lived God
• Life, therapy and the pursuit of happiness
• Suppression, the canary in the literary coal mine of societies that value ideas they don’t control
• Postcard from Phuket: when annoyance is entertainment
• Postcard from Bali: Eat, swim, read – and get soaked
• How close we came to The End
• A long-dead Soviet writer reminds us why now is a good time to remember Stalingrad
• Strictly Come Limping – how Britain’s boomers can rescue the economy
• Postcard from Bulgaria – oligarchs, patriarchs and medieval miracles
• Twitter, as seen by a grain of sand
• Twenty Days on the High Seas – Part Two
• Twenty Days on the High Seas – Part One
• Postcard from the Emirates: Khorfakkan – a retreat from the noisy neighbours
• Hungry dogs licking plates: how the social media “reported” Britain’s longest day