The day after the Brexit referendum our dear leader - then candidate for the presidency - was on his way…
Tammy Duckworth is a Senator from Illinois and fourteen years ago she was a captain with the Illinois National Guard…
A few November snowflakes and the hits on my all-time most-read post start climbing the "Most Read This Week" list.…
I thought of going back to France, but realised the absurdity of the notion. Since 1916, the fear of gas…
If you've ever been young and full of dreams .... If you ever headed to the big city with your…
In a time of political darkness - when the ugly power of racism rears up - it is good to…
It seemed to them that they were to go on living like that, and writing like that, for ever and…
“I hate poetry and all its fucking ambitious son-of-a-bitches who call me a showman because I act myself”. Gregory Corso letter…
There's a cat sanctuary in the grounds of the Pyramid in Rome. This rather incongruous Egyptian style pyramid was built in…
My uncle - Geoffrey Nicolls - served with the 16th West Yorkshire Regiment in WW1 and in the same week…