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Recent Posts

• 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
• A nation that queues
• Russia: remembering St Petersburg during a turning point – as a new one begins
• Goodbye to our Queen: a hardy perennial if ever there was one
• American justice: with lawyers in the signal box, is a train wreck in the making?
• Postcard from France: no jury required, thank you
• Confessions from a second-class (or maybe third-class) mind
• My country: flying blind
• Postcard from the Netherlands: snapshot of a wedding
• Postcard from France – beyond the grassy knoll
• The Long Farewell – Chapter One
• Quelle horreur: the joys of travel in 2022
• Scandi culture – keeping religion private
• Introducing Meldrew’s Disease
• At the movies: a top gurn at Mach 10
• Looking for America
• Postcard from Scotland (or rather a little bit of it…)