Politics and its Discontents

One of the major disappointments I have lived to experience is the fragility of democracy. That democratic traditions, customs and practices...

It is a long time since I believed in Hell, yet the following scenes are eerily reminiscent of what the nuns used to warn would be our desti...

If you are at all familiar with Ansel Adams, you will know that much of the palette for his photographic genius was Yosemite National Park. ...

Watch or don't watch the following; it really won't make any difference, as the trajectory is already firmly set, momentum is buildi...

The playlist is, I know, increasingly repetitive , but Earth-station has but a few records remaining on the turntable, and they will only be...

For those whose sense of weather peril is somewhat muted, the following picture of a London park, the top part showing it in May, and the bo...

I have just begun a book called Extreme Cites, by Ashley Dawson. As I have discerned it thus far, its thesis is that the world's great...