Michael Carberry9 minA Fundamental Problem: the unholy alliance between fundamentalist religion and extremist politics. What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...
Richard Pooley7 minPresident Macron’s “mad” promise will be kept. Notre Dame will reopen by Christmas.There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...
Jean-Luc Barbannneau10 minLost in the Labyrinth of LanguageThis little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,
Richard Pooley8 minAs Others See Us...and HistoryIn “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...
Stoker6 minKing’s Lynn and the Meaning of Nowhere We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...