It has been an interesting week for anyone interested in the sordid careers of former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, former Managing-director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and failed Royal Bank of Scotland boss (Sir) Fred Goodwin. So…
The Chinese dissident artist Ai Wei Wei is an unconventional man living and making his mark in a highly conventional society. He believes that you should let it all hang out but the Chinese government disagrees especially when he takes…
The Moose Bar, Limerick I felt sorry for Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, or Elizabeth Windsor if you are a republican. She is on a four day state visit to Ireland and, sadly, heavy security measures look like they…
It is too easy to mock the Queen of England, as they call her in Ireland. She wears funny clothes, talks funny too and stands for a whole load of things, for some, that are symbols of Britain at its…
It must be very annoying getting pulled off your flight home just when you were about to leave especially if you are being arrested for a crime you didn’t commit and when you are accustomed to getting your own way.…
Last week was the time for my roses here in my small town garden in Lewes in the south of England…. …the big prune in february has paid off….. …and the different varieties have all stretched their wings and mingled…
I felt like this today, frustrated, powerless, speechless, and unable to tell any of you, my readers, why the blog did not appear today. It was not my fault as there was trouble at Google and, whenever I tried to…
My friend and relative, Adam Bell, from the band Foxes! (see Links in the right hand column) is back from a month in India. He had a good time there and a good time last night too when he came…
Sepp Blatter You really don’t have to be a football fan to be thrilled by the latest revelations about the bribery and corruption involved when countries get all over-excited about hosting major tournaments at dates decades away into the future.…
On my last two visits to my doctor, he resumed what last year had been the regular post-brain haemorrhage monitoring of my blood pressure which seems to be going all over the place again these days. Inevitably, even though he…