Scooterons-nous vite. It's Back to School with Angela Brazil Long before Harry Potter - and indeed long before all those…
It's always fun when someone you know - a friend - has a book published. Here's Three Sheets to the…
Just over 20 years ago now a teacher walked into my office and said that he had just found a…
When intelligence officer Arthur Marshall was on the beach at Dunkirk in 1940 he turned to the work of Angela…
Novelists and film makers often struggle to find the right period details to anchor their work in a particular era.…
The sandwich was no comfort, it was a pale limp thing a long way from the déjeuner sur l'herbe of her…
As America wakes up this Sunday morning it is confronted with the horror of two major acts of domestic terrorism.…
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor…
I began this post in 2017. The original focus was Louis MacNeice's's poem "Brother Fire". MacNeice was a fire-watcher during…
Tammy Duckworth is a Senator from Illinois and fourteen years ago she was a captain with the Illinois National Guard…