A typical scene as we head into the centre of Italy.
Eventually, I came to a small stone house with logs piled up to the roof and a couple of tables covered piled with Kale under a lean-to. Faded letters announced: (more…)
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Into the Apennines
Setting off at a mighty clip from Zagarolo, I stuck to the main road and thus saw the buttresses and arches of Palestrina only in (more…)
Milvian Bridge and Out of Rome
Warning: This guy follows through on his drunken ramblings.
As promised to friends – a simple real-time account of a walk I am undertaking in preparation for the imminent uprising in Europe and final storming of Constantinople by Christian forces (I am in need of exercise). No room for a fancy prose style while I’m still on the road, I’m afraid. Each new post (more…)
Brexit’s Lesson to America
Daaaah, daaaah, daaaah, BAM BAAM (boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom)
I’ve just compared the pre-Brexit opinion polls with the US election polls. Similar pattern: ‘Remain’ was a few points ahead of ‘Brexit’ the day before, with about 6% undecided. Here’s what the US are not learning from Britain: ‘Undecided voters’ are merely (more…)
Breturning to Albion: A Poem
It behoves me once again to be in London. I awoke as my plane was passing over the South coast of (more…)
Should the UK Treat the EU as One Nation or Twenty-Seven?
A little after the new Foreign Secretary, Alexander ‘Boris’ Johnson, was booed at the French embassy yesterday, France commenced its annual celebrations of the bloodthirsty terrorist revolution against their monarchy.
Now, I think it was Chairman Deng Xiaoping who said (more…)
UKIP Must Stay
I’m now going to say about Brexit what I used to say about the EU: it is like a Shark – it must keep moving forwards or it will suffocate.
Firstly – don’t panic. (more…)
