A brand new 'welcome' on the trains
Poor old trains, poor old railways, going without passengers after years and years of packed carriages, and squeezed-together passengers, and choruses of criticism. But, relief of Mafeking and joy of joys, trains are back in business.
What an age for historians - for us all
Do we or don’t we live in astonishing times? Our grandparents can talk of world wars and air raids and rationing, of course, but who has heard any of our living ancients mentioning a plague? _
The shameful farce of our ‘justice’ system
Probably a little hard to believe, but your twice-a-week correspondent was highlighting a positive and actually helpful side of Britain's appalling prison system in the previous blog here.
The staggering cost of lockdown for cruise liners
Offer the word 'cruise' to me and I think enviously, nostalgically, of sailing on a yacht on an ocean, most of them, in fact, as I did very happily, and very satisfyingly for so many years of my life.
Sharing prison with some notable ghosts
What old lag could possibly smile and feel a form of affection, almost homesickness, upon spotting a prison from his not-so-distant past and then offer almost a salute to the 19th Century edifice as he recalled happenings behind the barred windows?
