Thursday, 1 November 2018

How the hard left embraces the right

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The trouble with the hard left is that it has no anchor. The hard left, including the group that currently controls the British Labour Par...
Monday, 29 October 2018

A road more travelled

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It wasn’t just fun to visit our friend Ana in Zagreb over the weekend. It was also highly entertaining. I particularly enjoyed learning a li...
Saturday, 27 October 2018

A lovely city. An excellent meal. Great conversation. And some invaluable insights

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The soft glow of gaslights in Zagreb's Upper Town It’s curious being back in a country I haven’t visited for over half a century.  ...
Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Walking no dogs

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The thing about dogs is that they get you out of doors. Which is just as well, because indoors they’re good at interrupting, or at least res...
Sunday, 21 October 2018

The people spoke, and I spoke with them

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It was the second biggest march in Britain this century. 670,000 people filed through the streets of London to say ‘no’ to Brexit and dema...
Wednesday, 17 October 2018

My remembrance of things past

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Objects sometimes bring back many lost memories, don’t they? In Proust, it was the flavour of the little cake known as a Madeleine that – ...
Sunday, 14 October 2018

England: the redeeming features

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It was a wonderful day on Saturday, and we took advantage of it to go walking with a friend in one of most charming places we know: Ashridge...