Antipodes

Upon this rock, George W Bush has decided to pursue his war in Iraq. But the gates of hell could well prevail against this bright and confi...

As a sane reaction against the abominable American phenomenon of fast food, the "slow food" concept was invented in 1986 by an Ita...

From Châtelus , on the other side of the Bourne, there's a magnificent view of the limestone cliffs above the village of Choranche. My f...

I'm impatient to discover whether or not Antipodes will be readable, in reality, on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Readers may have noticed...

After a week of dust and noise, the façade at Gamone is almost finished. [You can click the above photo to display a series of images of the...

For people like me who don't yet have an iPhone or an iPod Touch, a software gadget called iPhoney makes it possible to see what such-a...

This is the content of a letter I sent, dated 4 September 2007, to a well-known journalist, Janet Albrechtsen , at The Australian . You wrot...

Civilized humanity is thinking today, of course, about the earth-shaking events of a certain September 11, seen by most of us on TV, that no...

I'm amused to see the extent to which the buzzword " singularity " has gained ground in recent years. When I was a student, si...

When Apple's cutting-edge iPhone appeared, a few months ago, I had the impression that its least interesting aspect was the fact that ...

I've been browsing through stories in The Australian about police behavior during the APEC events in Sydney. And I've been asking m...

The gray-bearded man on the left is a still shot of Osama bin Laden taken from a video that was aired in October 2004. The black-bearded ma...

I've often said that this corner in the main street of the village of Pont-en-Royans, near the Picard bridge, is one of the worst I'...

In memory of Maestro Pavarotti, this image of the evening sky in the direction of Italy, seen from my house at Gamone:

One of France's oldest newspapers is the Communist daily L'Humanité , founded in 1904 by the great Socialist Jean Jaurès , who was c...

A few days ago, in my article entitled Fences and walls , I evoked the use of barriers as protection, as in Sydney this week. In the modern ...

In London a few weeks ago, I was greatly impressed by the splendid transformation of the old St Pancras station, which will soon replace Wa...

Since this morning, the main eastern façade of the old house is covered in steel scaffolding, and two tradesmen have started to remove the d...

Clearly, my dog Sophia smells the presence of a roe deer on the slopes opposite Gamone, and starts barking, before she actually sees the a...

When people are terrorized (in both senses, figuratively and literally) and their imagination runs out, causing them to lose control of them...