Seen from elsewhereHere in France a technocrat government slips awkwardly into place as England surpasses itself with frockgate — file under successful…Sep 27, 2024Sep 27, 2024
The revolt of the slaves or why I don’t want to get into bed with Douglas MurrayThere are many religious persons on our globe, that is to say people who get comfort from prayer. Murray is an atheist, he is not a…Jun 1, 2024Jun 1, 2024
Rory Stewart’s book: Politics on the edgeLife has its charms. Serendipity for example. We run a community book exchange in a small Pyrenean town and a man came in with a sack of…Nov 29, 2023Nov 29, 2023
Towards a natural history of London gangs?Whose heart does not sink when they hear of another teenage stabbing in London? I know mine does. Behind the stabbings (a proof to “get…Aug 22, 2023Aug 22, 2023
Memories and their shadowsThere are some recurring, involuntary, memories that have no shadows. The instance drops away into nothing. They are snapshots: the western…Jun 2, 2023Jun 2, 2023
I spy ChineseI moved from the countryside to a town so that I could learn to live in a population dense society. The so-called Chinese question is an…May 7, 2023May 7, 2023
France goes to war.The L.A.C. near Sigean is a two storey former warehouse now an art gallery. On the top storey is a permanent collection including Mondrian…May 7, 2023May 7, 2023
My LearnerSometime in late 1993 I had an interview with Northern Foods PLC in their boardroom on the top floor of modern offices by the River Hull…Mar 5, 2023Mar 5, 2023
Fessing up continuedIn the late winter of 1974 I got a job with National Car Parks Special Events Division. A firm that had made money by getting hold of bomb…Jan 13, 2023Jan 13, 2023
Fessing upSuddenly I stopped working. I curtailed a series of paintings, put off the rough sketches for the next and hung up my painter’s jacket…Nov 18, 2022Nov 18, 2022
Eat OutA mile away the signs begin. Burger du Stand, orange and yellow paint on rough-cut board. At the edge of Prades signs shout like a crowd of…Oct 2, 2022Oct 2, 2022
A new reignThe English adore puddings, and what a pudding mixture chance has prepared: Lizzie and Charles and Kate and Camilla and William the plums…Sep 12, 2022Sep 12, 2022
Combat FragmentsUkrainian soldiers brew up in a fox hole, a bailiff takes away a mans pick-up, someone teeters on the edge of a waterfall, seen from a…Sep 3, 2022Sep 3, 2022
Gwythian Prins or The Hornepipers’s Tale.As I write ritual sacrifice of the King is being practised at Westminster. If I say that Boris enjoyed Felicity you must wait till I’ve…Jul 11, 2022Jul 11, 2022
War in Ukraine? Buy my book, bastard.excerpted from Tap once if Human (smashwords 2015)Feb 25, 2022Feb 25, 2022
Nomad is an island made of meI was walking the beach line when I heard two shells shushurrating between themselves. I stooped to listen…Sep 17, 2021Sep 17, 2021
Breaking Britain“… the policy that sustained the general fear addressed existing sensitivities, soothed them with questionable historical references and…Dec 18, 2020Dec 18, 2020
