Call me Mohammed or Mustafa, anything foreign
I’m going to invent a new handle for myself if there is any chance that new migrants – new settlers, as they used to be called – are heading for Ascension Island.
Badgers are well worth saving
Dithering by our, er, lords and masters seems part of present-day political life, but to plan to exterminate creatures in our natural world, our noble badgers, which the government had only recently reprieved from slaughter, seems grossly cruel, insensitive, and nonsensical.
Envy of the world ... so they say
When mass slaughter by flames was 'ok'
Conscience has been nagging me about that deeply worrying discovery I referred to last week about the UK bombing of Dresden.
A generation's shame: Firebombing families
As a toddler and small boy I loved my grandfather. He was the greatest: a kind and gentle and encouraging senior.