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….until after the holidays.  Well, let’s face it.  The weather has been just glorious – in the UK anyway, but also on the ski slopes and in...

Famous de-Nazifier Vladimir Putin’s "Special Military Operation" in Ukraine has become the hot-bed for claims of ecological terrorism. Once a sprawling array of Europe’s most fertile farmland, Ukraine now sits in the crossroads of the future: devastating war and environmental disaster. Putin’s demolition...

I know we all live in an increasingly international world but the last ten days have been unusually so for the tree-planter. On my 75th...

“Never assume, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME”. So said Felix Unger, a character in the US TV series The...

No, not that slightly sleazy firm of solicitors in Penge that your neighbour is using in his boundary dispute.  Not lawyers in Penge...

The planning started almost a year ago. We were to visit my daughter who has been working in New Zealand for the last three and a half...

“Unnecessary and stupid”, said Poland’s Donald Tusk of the other Donald T’s initial imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and...

On 27th January 2025 the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz – Birkenau...

A reader from overseas asked me to write something about the war in Africa. ‘Which war?’ I asked. Although there is trouble in the...

There are two sharply opposing views on eucalypts, a genus of over 700 species native mainly to Australia, and mostly trees. A small...