Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Ignorance compounded by stupidity, and a longed-for homecoming denied

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If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be In that rich e...
Saturday, 1 December 2018

Forced march to a metaphor for life

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For months – or is it years now? – my wife Danielle has been joining Nordic walking sessions run by one of Luton ’s fine  leisure centres. ...
Thursday, 29 November 2018

To Rome - by broomstick?

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My Italian colleague Paola has asked me to meet a friend, who is also a business contact, at a hospital in Rome. That was an easy decision...
Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Half a loaf may be better than none, but a sourdough loaf's better than either

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Preserving and developing its skills is vital for any society. Back in the European middle ages, there was quite a structure for doing tha...
Saturday, 24 November 2018

Labour languishing where once it soared

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They’re funny old things, opinion polls. A bit discredited, in Britain. At the 2017 general election, they pointed towards a sizeable Conser...
Tuesday, 20 November 2018

Jews: what goes around comes around.

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Do you remember the jingle ‘In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue’? I learned that at school. It was much later that I realised that 149...
Sunday, 18 November 2018

Deadly anniversary and cautionary tale

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While in Zagreb a little while ago , my wife Danielle and I visited the Croatian Gallery of Naïve Art. There I came across painters I didn’t...