I was going to write this blog two days ago and I am glad I didn’t. Why? Because two days ago was Saturday morning and that was befo...

For a few days coverage of the Marathon Bomb in Boston dominated all of our news channels almost completely. We saw hour after ho...

Between 1930 and 1933 Christopher Isherwood wrote a series of short stories. They hauntingly caught a mood of storm clouds gathering...

  It would appear that the world has somehow turned on its head this week because an old lady finally succumbed to her final stroke. P...

  Once upon a time I spent many hours and days on board Indian trains. Rail journeys on the Subcontinent were a far cry from anything ...

  Regular readers of this blog will be more than aware that I am an inveterate smoker. I’ve been chewing through two packs a day for...

Yesterday saw this page receive its 30,000 th visitor. I still find this something that is ridiculously hard to get my head around. 19,...