Lies, Damn Lies and Specifics
June 9, 2020
Lies, damn lies – from Disraeli to Trump … More Lies, Damn Lies and Specifics
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Enlightenment
May 20, 2020
Time for a new Enlightenment … More Enlightenment
Gunge Ho
May 11, 2020
This is to my mind the best cartoon of the coronavirus saga so far. Martin Rowson’s sharp satirical pen catches the fatuous disjunct between the Tories’ tiresome invocation of military metaphor and the heroes this land was supposed to be fit for, who are now dying by the dozen thanks to the failure to address … More Gunge Ho
The Eagle Has Crash-Landed
April 17, 2020
Rome has always been my central reference point for triangulating where we now stand, or fall, in history. With the ghastly misadventure in Iraq in 2003, George Bush obviously thought of himself as a latterday Caesar, even prematurely celebrating success with the hubristic “Mission Accomplished”, in no doubt unconscious imitation of Caesar’s “veni, vidi, vici”. … More The Eagle Has Crash-Landed
Olympic hurdles
March 27, 2020
I have been silent for months as the Brexit tragedy has unfolded, the whole fiasco being driven by self-seeking cynics who have a very contemporary aversion to the truth, which rendered intelligent discourse increasingly unsustainable. The mirthless joke is that those same charlatans are now in charge of the country as it faces its darkest … More Olympic hurdles
26 hours in Denmark
July 1, 2016
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
Nexit
June 29, 2016
Here I was about to Nexit – leave Norway, albeit by ferry not act of mass suicide. Sitting in a growing queue at Oslo docks, I noted that mine is the only British car. There are dozens of Dutch, troops of Germans, a few Danes and the odd Swede; just the one Brit. Indeed, I haven’t … More Nexit
aRses Win
June 24, 2016
Democracy was never supposed to be about mob rule, anymore than you would want a mob of football hooligans to referee the match. What next? Referenda on capital punishment, and enforced repatriation? This is where Germany was 90 years ago, so they have sort of got their way – turning the clock back with the … More aRses Win
R Day -1
June 22, 2016
I am glad I have been out of the country for the last week of this game of Russian roulette. Europe has, sensibly, been more exercised by the European Cup, a much more appropriate expression of international cooperation and competition, nationalism without nastiness. It has produced some great moments of theatre, much better than recent … More R Day -1
R Day-4
June 19, 2016
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
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