In 2003 the US government assembled an international army to invade and occupy Iraq, in order to destabilize the region and thus allo...

Linda and her young sister learnt to swim in the hands of a middle-aged man who knew their mother, though not particularly well. He had no ...

We’ve just had our Norskies (son and granddaughters) here for a couple of weeks, and very nice too. The exit was not so pleasant, because of...

Ross and I agree on most things in life, but the fuss over the changing climate isn’t one of them. We’re not scientists or climatologists, s...

In a blog-post called The Gay Marriage Thing in March last year, I recognized that the legalization of same-sex marriages in effect dismiss...

One of Cayman’s most emotive charity-appeals is for children who arrive at school without having been fed any breakfast. A newspaper report ...

When I was a boy… [Surely one of the benefits of becoming an old codger is that you can get away with reminiscences beginning with “When I w...

Having Cayman as a colony is not all fun and games for the British Government. The poor old FCO (Foreign & Commonwealth Office) goes to ...

I came across a website the other day that challenged readers to write a series of 26 essays, within a selected theme, each essay to be iden...

Several cousins and ancestors on my Barlow side were involved (to a greater or lesser degree) in the maintenance of the British Empire’s Ind...