Finally out. So my first EES experience was 1 hour 20. Am I the first on here to go through the process? And at the end of it all, rather an anticlimax as they still stamped my passport. (View Post)

We’ll be back. Emerging from the smouldering ruins in a decade or so. (View Post)

A beautiful autumn day today. We walked around Greenwich park, as we always do at least once every October when the chestnuts are on the ground. The sort of October day that, as I’ve noted before on … (View Post)

I agree, and it’s largely an Anglo Saxon phenomenon. See my similar comments on political environmentalism yesterday. Unfortunately the alternative sort of liberalism, the one I am partial to, is eve… (View Post)

One further glimmer of hope for the long term, though not necessarily to my personal taste: several regimes in the region have managed in recent years to combine conservative Islamism with free marke… (View Post)