• 20th Century

    Letters from an Arbeitsmaid – Part Two

    In Part 1, I described how in late 1943 and early 1944, Hildegard Uhl had written to her friend Eva Möller, the recipient of Feldpost from the Afrika Korps soldier Hans Coutandin of “Desert Mystery: [more...]
  • America

    Epstein……Behind the Curtain (Part 1)

    Everybody wants to talk about the island — the private jet with its logbook of the damned, the underage girls ferried like cargo between Caribbean shorelines and Manhattan penthouses, the hidden cameras and mahogany-doored rituals [more...]
  • Arts

    Jack and his Giant Stalk

    Venue: Brick Lane Music Hall, Silvertown I haven’t been to a panto since I took my nephews then aged 4 & 6 to one (I forget which) in Colston Hall, Bristol (can we say ‘Colston’ [more...]
  • America

    The Andrew formerly known as Prince

    With the sensational arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor we enter the realm occupied by those who want to eradicate our monarchy while simultaneously doing a bit of deflection. I am not particularly pro monarchy but I [more...]
  • Literature

    Words Part Eleven

    These are some of my favourite short poems by William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay [more...]

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