David Miliband returns to mainstream politics

Here is a short story.  It starts on a train and I’m talking to a fellow commuter and it’s set in the time BC – Before Coronavirus….. I really hate mobile phones.  There’s no privacy, [more…]

I wrote a few notes on Warble Gloaming recently, and with the gloomfest that is COP26 looming I thought it might be time to revisit them.  Here’s the third, where I try to list the [more…]

I’ve been aware of this bit of our history since I was in Junior School, but the other day I read about it again and thought the story was worth retelling. In the mid-fourteenth century, [more…]