Berlin Zoo – July 1945 Even the summer sun was ashamed to show its face, shrouded by ashen clouds that glowed as if from distant shell fire. Dust hung leaden in the air, and carcasses of once proud buildings spilled their viscera onto desolate streets where the contents of former…
It was hot last month. The hottest September on record by a staggering 0.5c. If we want our staycations to get even hotter, we’re taking world-beating measures to guarantee it. Rosebank is a case in point. After the government issued development and production consent to the Rosebank oilfield last month…
Prologue October 1998 – Moscow Smoke drifted in the air like the aftermath of an artillery bombardment, presided over by the ghoulish features of a nightmarish Politburo of the dead and the damned. The busts of Lenin and Felix Dzherzinsky surveyed the nightclub with grim disapproval from their perches high…
What precisely is a ‘Think Tank’ and should we be selling them to Ukraine? Certainly, from what I’ve seen they’re a destructive force. They invariably seem to qualify for charitable status, without performing any identifiable charitable works. Indeed they mostly perform no visible function at all, although they often share…
I went to Sunday school as a child steeped in Enid Blyton and Alfred Hitchcock, and found the language of the Bible musty and impenetrable, and the narrative less convincing than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Sunday School was more about giving my parents a couple of hours…