A fool on a hill

Now, I have to admit that it's some time since I read A Library of Lemons . As you will have noticed, things have been happening in Brit...

Yesterday, I watched Theresa May making her first speech as Britain's new prime minister. What she said was unexpected: she talked about...

... and this is pretty much how I feel about it. No more words at the moment - but Shakespeare's keep echoing through my mind: ...

I have been away quite a bit over the last few weeks, so I haven't posted for a while. And I've been rather preoccupied by the EU re...

This book has 484 pages; I started it on Friday afternoon and finished it on Saturday morning before breakfast. Yes, I woke up early - but t...

Thomas Harding's grandparents were originally called Hirschowitz, and they were Jews who managed to escape from Hitler's Germany jus...

A couple of weeks ago, I was facing a choice between what sounded like a compelling - but very dark - new detective series on the TV, and a ...