Posts from the ‘Books’ Category
- How close we came to The End on February 14, 2023
- Postcard from Bulgaria – oligarchs, patriarchs and medieval miracles on December 16, 2022
- Twenty Days on the High Seas – Part One on November 7, 2022
- Scandi culture – keeping religion private on July 1, 2022
- Ukraine: have we reached peak fake news? on March 8, 2022
- Boris Johnson – Britain’s angel of redemption on February 8, 2022
- Getting ready for the Big One on December 21, 2021
- Postcard from France: gables, ghosts and gumboots on November 12, 2021
- The only bucket list worth making is of stuff you’ve already done on October 28, 2021
- Summer Reading: Putin’s People on May 28, 2021
- When two tribes go to war on March 18, 2021
- The face of the future on November 24, 2020
- Corona Diaries Redux – Lockdown 2 arrives on November 5, 2020
- The Comey Rule: a story without a proper ending….yet on October 8, 2020
- Quite Alone: stories of hope from the Middle East on October 5, 2020
- Beirut on August 6, 2020
- It’s history, but not as we know it, Jim on July 29, 2020
- Let’s hear it for the awkward squad on July 28, 2020
- When normal is abnormal on July 26, 2020
- Cancel culture – pressing the red button on July 9, 2020
- Lockdown Reading: reflections on a school on July 4, 2020
- The Sloganators: mad men in tee shirts on July 1, 2020
- Lockdown Reading: The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis on June 26, 2020