My family historian wife, Jane Barder, has exhaustively researched and written a fascinating and often moving account of her father’s (and his family’s) experiences during the second world war, from the time when he...
Earlier this month (October 2012) J and I enjoyed a Viking river cruise on the Elbe from Berlin to Prague. In response to several requests, J has written an account of the trip, including...
In your heart you know he’s wrong…. ….but at least he’s better-looking than Gordon [Hat-tip: http://mydavidcameron.com/]
Last autumn our most debased and shameless tabloid newspaper, Murdoch’s Sun, denounced with its usual fake indignation a ‘comedy workshop’ at an English prison, attended by a convicted Muslim terrorist and other assorted evil-doers. ...
We returned, J and I, on Sunday from another cruise, this time aboard the biggest and newest ship in the UK cruise fleet, P&O's Ventura. Our private ship's log, or diary, of the two...
Read a diary of a cruise on Arcadia, see some pictures and reconsider your prejudice against the cruise phenomenon [More >>>>]
Jack Straw’s leaked proposals for House of Lords reform are deeply flawed in almost every respect: flabby compromises and barely disguised ploys to give the party machines control of the second chamber as well as the contgrol they already have over the first. We can do better than this [More >>>]
As promised, or threatened, in a recent Ephems post about the impending demise of the Swan Hellenic cruise line, I have now put a not-too-serious diary of our first and last Swan Hellenic experience...
[Picture]: Don’t panic, Ma’am: (a) it’s your 80th birthday celebration, (b) they aren’t loaded, and (c) anyway they’re only rolled umbrellas (all the real guns are with our lads in Iraq and Afghanistan).