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I’ve always suspected that Fitzroy might be a mathematician or some kind of a computing wizard… who doesn’t necessarily go out of his way t...

This morning, the postwoman brought me a first copy (from the printer in the UK) of They Sought the Last of Lands , which can be thought of...

Exactly 70 years ago, on 25 August 1944, General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque arrived in Paris at the head of tanks of his celebrated a...

In our modern world of cheap senseless selfies and trashy paparazzi images, it’s nice to be able to look back at the first fellow who happe...

It’s 2 o’clock in the morning, and I’ve just finished uploading the files of They Sought the Last of Lands to the IngramSpark platform in...

What a superb statement! I wish I had invented such a slogan. So-called “Great War” celebrations are starting to drown us, while di...

To punish people who have been led astray by sins of the flesh, God invented venereal diseases . And today, ever abreast of state-of-the-ar...

Click to enlarge Richard Dawkins has just retweeted a message from WikiLeaks informing us that, as of today, the UK has spent 7 mil...

In one of his recent TV documentaries, François Skyvington found himself in the middle of a wonderful world of colors in the Midi-Pyrénées...

Initially, Old Bailey was the name of a London street... Four years ago, in a blog post entitled Family-history shock [ display ], I d...

My son François Skyvington told me on the phone this morning that his moped road movies are currently being aired on the Arte channel at a...

When I was a child in Grafton, nobody ever talked to me about the churches of London. (These days, I’ve made up largely for the lost informa...

This week, the latest series of moped movies starring François Skyvington has been showing on the Arte channel. Sensing that they’ve crea...