The brave new post-Covid world is beginning to take shape. A couple of days ago I had an e-mail from a friend in Hobart, Tasmania...

It was Oscar Wilde who wrote to his friend Ada Leverson: 'One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell (in Dickens'...

Moses is not the sort of chap to be trifled with, I can tell you. He was on chatting terms with God, and God entrusted him with the Ten...

You may well have already seen Roy Zimmerman's wonderful parody of Wimoweh, reshaped as Vote Him Away and aimed at removing guess-who...

This is one of those keep-you-awake-at-night thoughts. We are all waiting anxiously for the announcement of a vaccine or a treatment drug...

The picture at the top of this blog entry may not look like much to you, but to all of us it is a breakthrough. Yesterday 2 June...

I've just finished watching Edouard Philippe, the engaging French Prime Minister, and an array of lesser mortals, tell us what is in...

It’s often said that if you want something done, ask a busy person. I’ve had an example of this in the last couple of days. If you've...

This is real science, folks, not fake. I'm going to use my two years studying statistics at Sydney University to show that here in France...

I don't know about you, but in the strange world of coronavirus lockdown my friends are taking a break from playing Solitaire and old...

It's only fair to say that Covid-19 hasn’t inconvenienced us all that much, now that we are back in France. We are in lockdown, of...

In the midst of all the horrors of the Covid-19 pandemic, there are occasional glimpses of light. Who could fail to be moved by the...

There are few things in life more guaranteed to disappoint than going back to a fond childhood memory. So I took a mighty risk going back...

The most formative event in my parents' lives was, as best I can work it out, not World War 2 but the Great Depression. Even in...