Lines of poetry quoted by F D Roosevelt to Churchill and by Churchill to Roosevelt, and quoted in Churchill’s wartime speeches, have acquired a huge emotional; charge for older people from that wartime context. Do Bush and Blair exchange poetry, and if so what poems would be appropriate? [More >>>]
Some thoughts about two members of the royal family who have recently appeared in military or naval uniforms and other ceremonial costume without benefit of any supporting military or naval careers of any significance in their cv’s (US: resumés). [More >>>]
A few examples of remarks, written or spoken, about which the author might usefully have had second thoughts [More >>>]
Media reports of last week’s discovery of brain activity indicating a response to the spoken word by a patient diagnosed as in Persistent Vegetative State mostly ignore the exciting work done in the past decade in London in establishing genuine communication with patients misdiagnosed as in PVS [More >>>]
I’m much indebted to Tony Hatfield for drawing attention, in his indispensable blog “Tony’s Ramblings”, to a wonderful story on the BBC News website. Here it is, in its entirety: Eleven bailed over stolen...
An old friend, an inexplicably obsessive cricket fanatic, has just telephoned in a state of high excitement about the collapse today of the fourth Test match between England and Pakistan. My first thought was...
Still paying our wartime debts to Uncle Sam, and other recent items [More >>>]
The Craig Murray controversy resumes with publication of his book (minus quotations from documents to which the FCO objected) and an FCO threat of legal action for breach of copyright (!) unless he removes the texts from the Web [More….]