Before the Nazis took power in 1933 Jeanne Mammen earned her living as a commercial artist, selling her work to…
From George Orwell at the Café Royal : The coming of the Hitler regime in 1933 had a chilling effect…
A recent visit to Montreal found us at the MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal Fortified with coffee and breakfast…
In September we heard Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Oprah Winfrey at the Apollo in NYC. The topic was his…
I love this poem by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It's a commentary on the fact that - even in the darkest…
Mustn't Grumble We mustn’t grumble We have wireless and cable And there’s food in the shops. Beyoncé had a birthday and…
George Orwell had an interesting chance encounter with a blasé conspiracy theorist at the Café Royal in 1940. (See left). The young…
Friends in the UK who usually come to visit in August were prevented by an illness this year. Big disappointment,…
When I first became a head of school I had this daft idea that I would make personalized cut-and-paste greetings…
Two quite different wartime farewells at Charing Cross Station: The first is from Vera Brittain on the eve of 1915:…