The Transavia flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport, touched down at Lisbon thirty minutes behind schedule. The passenger who had been sitting in the starboard isle seat by the over wing exit, waited for the [more…]
12:20 am Friday morning
For those of us interested in space travel however we live in interesting times; as there is probably more development going on in the world today than at any time since NASA was spending an [more…]
This is an attempt to describe how some of those who spied for Russia during WW2 were recruited and by whom. It seems a large number of them were prepared to betray their country for [more…]
Economics is a topic about which I know a little. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing… I guess I know enough to run a small business, feed the kids, annoy my family with [more…]
Later that evening when she relayed his thoughts on Sam to Martha, the older woman broke down, confessing her fears for her adoptive son: the soul tarnishing effect of killing for any cause, the girl’s [more…]
For five years (2004-9) I sat on the European Parliamentary Consumer Affairs committee, a woeful experience indeed but with occasional flashes of unintended humour. One forlorn afternoon in Brussels we sat deliberating on European bottle [more…]
On a mini-break to London some years ago, we decided to have a look round the Courtauld Gallery (in the old Somerset House, which used for decades to be the central registry of birth, marriages [more…]
London’s tram network was equally loved and hated by its users and those inconvenienced by it. On the one hand, it was a reliable method of getting about however tracks were expensive to lay and [more…]
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