(Travellers’ tales – fourth episode, April 1965) There we were, rolling along the highway from Finland to Leningrad in the middle of a vir...

(Travellers’ tales – third episode, February 1965) Two of the tyres were flat when we got back to the car after three months away. The Cus...

Killing kangaroos is not generally popular in Australia, even for the soundest of economic reasons. Out on the sheep and cattle stations (ra...

Like the song says: Don’t believe all you’re liable to read in the Bible: it ain’t necessarily so. [Ira Gershwin, 1935] Generally, histori...

By the time a man reaches his 70s, he has passed through the stage of forgetting his youthful irresponsibility and is remembering it again. ...

As with the item titled “Checkpoint Charlie” a few weeks ago, this present posting is written for my grandchildren, so that they will know j...

I wonder why Christian churches don’t scrap the Old Testament. Much of it is an embarrassment. The Burning Bush, The Parting of the Sea, Jos...

It’s a grandfather’s privilege, universally acknowledged, to bore his grandchildren with tales of his younger days. I miss out on that, beca...

Sometimes daily newspapers have to cast a wide net for their news, don’t they? Last week England’s Daily Mail reported that two men in a la...

About this time every year, Cayman honours “16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence”. There are a couple of marches, and a couple of spe...