Dear MP The Dangers of the WHO Pandemic Treaty and International Health Regulations This should be concerning to anyone who calls himself a democrat. The World Health Organisation is proposing legally binding amendments to their previous regulations (which were simply recommendations), together with…

13 months ago / 132 visits / 24 comments

Like most of my generation, I grew up with the Famous Five, my childhood enriched by farfetched notions of mystery and secret passages. Rereading those books of long ago, I can forgive the predictable plots and banal writing style and enter into the carefree world of children solving crimes and cat…

2 years ago / 178 visits / 16 comments / 1 person likes

They must not a wrong foot put, or they will end up in the soot. Scientists reckon the thinking part of the brain is suppressed during dreaming. So how come I can write poetry in my sleep? I was dreaming that I'd taken a photo of workmen trudging down a wintry street, where the last remnants of sno…

4 years ago / 359 visits / 3 comments

On 7th August 1985, at White House Farm, Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, five members of one family were shot dead. They were 61-year-old farmer, Nevill Bamber; his wife, June; their daughter, Sheila Caffell; and Sheila’s six-year-old twins, Nicholas and Daniel. June and Nevill had married in 1949 and, fi…

9 years ago / 1 055 visits / 4 comments

I wonder if he’s still alive today: the boy I nearly didn’t save from drowning. I was thirteen, at the lido with Julie. She could swim a mile, but I could only doggy paddle. I was frightened of deep water, especially when I saw the black lines wiggling on the bottom. ‘Sixfoot’ was one of the scaries…

10 years ago / 102 visits