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Don’t ask me why I adore this image: My joy is strictly Platonic. The old Greek fuddy-duddy tried to persuade us that Heaven is ful...

It's hard to imagine that a quiet and well-behaved old-timer like me might evoke the possibility of his Viking ancestry. Besides, I can’...

If this tiny video doesn’t blow your mind out, then nothing will: I like to think that all this is happening just alongside our friend...

Four sisters. Forty years. This simple and beautiful pictorial story started in 1975 with a delightful image. — photo by Nicholas Nixon...

Throughout my life, attitudes towards the Jesus phenomenon have been evolving constantly. As a child, I was led to believe that Je...

Environmental activists draw attention to the mortal sin (to borrow a good old Roman Catholic concept) of destroying rain forests as in the...

In the USA, they’re known as French fries . In Australia, we call them chips (not to be confused with the thin dried potato crisps sold in...

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...