Toy box
Guns. 80,000 of them are being handed out to citizens of the Ukraine over the last few days. AK-47s (oh,…
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Your reward is in the Chateau
An old boss of mine at the best advertising agency in the world (according to the Gunn Report, which measures…
Hot metal and cold facts
Goodwood Revival. The words either bring a look of consternation to people’s faces or else they break out in smiles…
Mazey Day
This coming Saturday it will be Mazey Day in Penzance. I have not been to Penzance for three years, and…
C’etait un rendez vous
I returned to Knightsbridge to report the bad news. The road from Luton to London was just under an hour’s…
A gentleman in St. James’s
There are parts of London which tourists don’t visit because they don’t know about them. If they did, these places…
Local hero
For several years now I have been trying to learn how to judge the quality of pubs as the British…
The Light of the World
The Russian Orthodox Church keeps the Julian calendar. This means that they run to a timetable 12 days behind the…