Like much of the world, the UK has been undergoing a summer of drought—not as bad as Russia and some other spots, but pretty noticeable nonetheless. Parts of the Northwest show rivers […]
Tony Blair tries to explain himself, and gets some help
Tony Blair’s political autobiography, A Journey, went on sale in the UK and the US today, and has prompted, if not a firestorm, a huge amount of media and political shouting over […]
Unsolicited Museum Review: Sargent and the Sea at the Royal Academy
John Singer Sargent is largely known for being a portrait painter, capturing the faces of the Gilded Age of the late 19th century in American and Europe. Unlike Whistler, another American in […]
Journey's End
Well, the advance sales on Tony Blair’s autobiography (A Journey—how’s that for a title?) must not be shaping up the way the publisher had hoped. First, we learned that the publisher was […]
That Libya thing
There’s a whole lot of ink being spilled, and much, much more to come, over the US Senate’s whining over the early release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted by Scottish […]
Media deprivation in the US
We’re in our third week of visiting the grandkids (along with their outstanding parents) in Massachusetts and I’m starting to feel media deprived. I’m a news/information junkie, I cheerfully admit, and every […]
Capital Ring, done!
So last weekend we finally finished the Capital Ring walk. This is a 75-mile walk around London, in fifteen separate walks, that takes you through a whole raft of neighborhoods, parks, and […]
So how’s that coalition thingamajig workin’ out for ya, Britain?
Well, we’ve had, let’s see, a month of the now-old-hat Conservative/Lib Dem coalition, and the sky hasn’t fallen yet. I guess it still might, but then again, it might snow in London […]
Stamping
So on Friday I wandered over to the London Festival of Stamps. This is this big show, held every ten years. I normally go to two shows a year, just to pick […]
Well, that's sorted, then
I have to say that this has all been great fun. Well, for me, anyway, and political junkies everywhere. For the parties involved, I don’t imagine that it has been anyone’s idea […]
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