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San Francisco Half Marathon
Grethe and I ran the Kaiser Permanente Half Marathon in San Francisco yesterday. Over six thousand…
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Reporting from Iraq
Stephen Grey has shown great courage in spending a great deal of time in Iraq during…
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Europe and America
Tony Judt has an excellent article in the 10th February edition of the New York Review…
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Nelson Mandela’s Speech
Nelson Mandela made a very good speech in Trafalgar Square today, in an effort to galvanise…
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Rewriting history
RC has a blog which claims, about the Iraqi elections, I was naïve, perhaps, in believing…
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Successful elections do not vindicate the war
The initial news from Iraq is very encouraging: media reports are talking about a turnout of…
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Big sugar is poisoning us
The US Government published new dietary guidelines on January 13, 2005. These guidelines are updated every…
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Hotel Rwanda – great film
We went to see Hotel Rwanda – a film about a hotel manager who saved more…
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Why I like living in California
In case you wonder why we like living in California (as if), the following two pictures…
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Dick Crossman and the holocaust
John Naugton has a very interesting story about Dick Crossman, the great Labour politician and writer;…