‘Germany 10 – 0 England’
No, don’t panic, you didn’t miss England taking a penalty thrashing in a vital international fixture. This is just my personal take on the role Germany has in the world these days. How they are...
View Article‘ Solace in a Samovar’
This time a fortnight ago I was on my little Russian adventure sat in a Germanic style bar in central St. Petersburg getting warm and setting the world to rights over a decanter of vodka and a German...
View Article‘It’d be awful if the world exploded, it’s so wonderfully splendid’
Is any situation not perfect for a Tove Jansson quote? The post holiday blues kicked in some time ago and memories of my trip in February to Iceland faded quicker than the unexpected Nordic tan I...
View Article‘There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the...
What is the Winter Solstice? Why should you care? This is not a Scroogey anti-commercial diatribe on the materialism of Christmas, you can work out your own feelings on that. But I think the Earth...
View Article‘The Truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind’
Out and about on dull errands in drizzly unfestive England today, I thought back to last weekend when I was in Paris. The Dickens line, ‘a tale of two cities’ has never seemed so accurate. Paris has...
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