All the wrong notes
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, secondly as farce. Tragedy because the first time round it shouldn’t have happened. Farce…
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…
The South shall not rise
Holy Hell. A Stars and Bars flag being flown in the central lobby of the Capitol building of the United…
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.” One of the most famous and internationally…
Not so merry Christmas, Mr. Toad.
So this is Christmas, as the Yoko Ono and John Lennon song ‘Happy Christmas (War is over)’ goes. All of…
These foolish things
There is a heartache behind every act of spite. My mother could be very spiteful. You can fill in the…
Wiping your feet on the last era of elegance
There are icons of manhood.
Turning left
I miss the air travel. I miss business travel. There was a time when I would look up in the…
I’ll be at my club
There is an episode of the TV show Frazier where the insufferable snobs that are Niles and Frazier Crane vie…
A dangerous federation
The Embassy in Trafalgar Square in 1985. It was still flying the orange, white and blue stripes with British, Orange…