Anyone who enjoys decent health, and who avoids personal tragedy, in a rich world democracy, has drawn first prize in the lottery of life. That was driven home to me by reading Bret Devereux's s… (View Post)

Give credit where it's due, the EU is doing very much the right thing, here. (View Post)

Some of those, I quite like. Some privileged people can be remarkably tin-eared. (View Post)

I always got the best part - Herod. (View Post)

We divided our honeymoon between Venice and Sorrento. Travelling by train to Rome, then changing to Naples, it was like switching from Germany to the Middle East. The train from Venice to Rome was lu… (View Post)