As the callow chumps in Westminster duck and dive, working out how best to game the system in their own selfish interest, the public knows whatever outcome will be bad for the majority. That doesn’t stop the Tories apparently favouring that feckless fool Johnson as a replacement for the intellectually inert incumbent of 10 … More Guy Fawkes: Where are you now we need you so?
No-one should be surprised at the sending of pipe bombs to the Clintons and Obama. This is precisely the kind of activity encouraged by a rogue president who supported the lethal fascists of Charlottesville and attacks on journalists. This White House of certifiable crazies makes nothing impossible. One wouldn’t be surprised if Trump … More Bombs Away
A small army of these rather creepy cut-outs have recently cropped up around my area, clearly intended to enhance the mood of maudlin nostalgia which has been ebbing and flowing since the centenary of the start of the First World War in 2014. There are plans afoot for this to peak in a nationwide peal … More Lest We Forget
Most people would associate civilisation with running water, sewers, central heating and hot baths, with travel and trade enabled by ordered government, good roads and a secure currency. Britain enjoyed all these things over 2000 years ago, thanks to our being part of the Roman empire. Of course, the Romans had a nasty controlling habit … More All Roads Lead to Rome
One thing I will say for the Scandis is they’re very organised and very conformist. Told to stay in line, wait, or drive at 50kph they mostly will. Our overnight ferry to Frederikshavn awoke us at 6.15 am, saying we would dock in an hour. We arrived five minutes later, and boats duly came alongside … More 26 hours in Denmark
I have all but been struck dumb by the monstrous stupidity of my fellow countrymen, much though I expected it. That the overpaid ninnies of England football have also obeyed the popular dictate to leave Europe forthwith merely reminds me of how often we have faced abject failure in the past. To be so severely … More Dumb Struck
This extraordinary edifice in the Antwerp docks stands for the uncomfortable accommodation of old and new you often find in Europe. Looking like a giant inter-galactic space bug trying to mate with a 19th century asylum, it seems to come from the same impulse which drives schoolboys to put a moustache on the Mona Lisa. … More R Day-4
A year ago I travelled through Europe to remind myself what being part of that continent has given us as a people and as a culture. This year I am driving through Belgium, Holland and Germany to visit Denmark and Sweden for the first time, en route to visit my family in Norway. I shall thus, … More R-Day minus 6
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