Posts from the ‘History’ Category
- A nation that queues on September 16, 2022
- Scandi culture – keeping religion private on July 1, 2022
- Happy and glorious, shiny and endless on June 4, 2022
- Ukraine: have we reached peak fake news? on March 8, 2022
- The dogs are unleashed on February 22, 2022
- Getting ready for the Big One on December 21, 2021
- Postcard from France: gables, ghosts and gumboots on November 12, 2021
- Farewell to a Navigator on October 30, 2021
- The only bucket list worth making is of stuff you’ve already done on October 28, 2021
- On levelling up and other fantasies on October 12, 2021
- The Old Lie on September 6, 2021
- Afghanistan: the Monkey and the Sonnet on August 20, 2021
- All is not lost – provided you can dodge the muck and bullets on August 10, 2021
- Summer Reading: Putin’s People on May 28, 2021
- Great men are not always the famous ones on May 4, 2021
- Britain’s latest invasive species – the flag fetish on March 23, 2021
- When two tribes go to war on March 18, 2021
- The diminishing power of three on February 22, 2021
- Let us now praise famous men (or erase them) on February 16, 2021
- Corona Diaries: Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice on January 27, 2021
- Biden Day 1: Messages from the Oval Office on January 22, 2021
- A man of steel on January 21, 2021
- Goodbye Donald: a 21-fart salute to a naked president – Part 2 on January 18, 2021
- Goodbye Donald: a 21-fart salute to a naked president – Part 1 on January 18, 2021
- Nearly gone on January 8, 2021