John Allen Muhammad, the 48 year old “DC Sniper” who terrified the Washington area and became one of the biggest international stories of 2002 was executed by lethal injection last night at the Greensville Correctional Center in Virginia, USA. The…
An American clergyman from Boston is visiting Britain at the moment and he is telling everyone how he has been cured by a miracle. I am delighted for him naturally. Apparently this man has had a potentially paralysing spine condition…
I was asked by my kung fu club to take some photographs yesterday morning. My old sparring partner Pete was doing his grading to become a kung fu instructor and I was going along to give him my support but…
Bonfire came to my home town of Lewes last night – the roads were closed to motor vehicles and opened to a wonderfully sprawling and anarchic crowd of fire wielding Lewesians in a ceremony that has given Lewes the most…
Sometimes I do believe that there are large interfering and ironically spiteful gods up there preordaining our fates. They must be very bored at the moment because they have decided to turn their mischief onto me. How else would they…
Verbal communication is one of humanity’s greatest achievements – it has taken us out of those caves into the miraculously advanced societies of today and also given us a lot of juicy gossip. Where would we be without it? I…
The Czech Republic hasn’t been so important in European affairs since the appalling days of Nazi and Soviet aggression. Now though, it is in all our headlines for gentler reasons. It looks like the final hurdle to the ratification of…
So I made it out of October in spite of all those bad feelings about revisiting my brain haemorrhage and the events that surrounded it a year ago. The day of the actual anniversary, 30th. October, was marked by a…
At almost exactly this time last year, 10.20 am, I wrote an email and opened a couple of others – all of them unremarkable. I only remember that because it is the last record of any activity here before a…
I love politicians as much as the rest of you. They are, as we all know, mostly dedicated public servants with a mission to make the World a better place. Well, I guess some of them are like that but…