Zoom
Yuval Harari, the Israeli academic and hero of mine, said in an interview with Channel 4 news recently, that his…
The wages of s(p)in
So Boris is in intensive care. The reports emanating from Russia Today that he was on a ventilator yesterday after…
The Russia House
BBC Newsnight 2018. The presenter declares Russia to be “our principal enemy”. In the sleeping district of Hove, Sussexski, we…
Catching the last flight
The Vulcan bomber. Possibly the most beautiful military aircraft ever built. Certainly the noisiest. It was the aircraft which patrolled…
Damaged goods
There is a line in the film “Genius” in which the ex-wife of the novelist Thomas Wolfe, rebuffs the sexual…
Early morning coffee with the partisans of Sami.
Tessera cafe bar, Sami. Keffalonia. It is the port town’s Saint’s Day and the bells from the Church have been…
Shattered
She played the song. ‘This is how I feel about you.” ‘Vintage Red’ sung by Jay Jay Pistolet came on…
Frontlines Everywhere
This is a blog of an everyman’s front line – one of billions of front lines. We all live on…