Journey to the centre of the earth
The centre of Tanya and my world is our children. Always and forever. They are the Alpha and Omega of…
Decision time
In the film The Day Of The Jackal, starring Edward Fox as the eponymous assassin, the Jackal had reached a…
複眼思考 Changing the conversation II
The Japanese are renowned for making decisions slowly. They have been a settled community for two and a half thousand…
Is Le Pen mightier than the sword?
At the end of next week the French electorate will reduce down the list of candidates for the Presidency to…
Facing west
Everything is politics. It has taken a war to wake me up to this truth. It’s not that I have…
The taming of Bucephalus
Bucephalus. Alexander the Great’s favourite steed. The most famous horse in history. Its name means ‘spirited and mettlesome’. (What does…
Why the war in Ukraine will turn us all into refugees.
Yesterday, my family joined about twenty other people – all Ukrainians or Russian emigres opposed to Putin’s regime – on…
Love IRL
Just as we settled down and the lights went out in the theatre, Tanya leaned over to me and whispered…
The hard smell of salt
The story below is written by Mel Sutovsky, a student of mine when I taught creative writing in the spring…
The punk peacock
I like peacocks. I am one myself. And I have one friend in particular who is a punk peacock. He…