1. Putin and Italy. Russia has/is sending aid to Italy. Surely, this is something we can all applaud, help in time of crisis; Yes, but...

A number of you, following last week's lecture for JW3, asked me to put up the quote I used. So here it is, taken from Seamus Heaney's ...

Leslie, one of the students who followed my lecture on 'The Baltic and World War Two' for JW3 yesterday, reminds me that I didn't mention...

Many thanks to whoever replied to me with their considered academic response and answer. Just click on ‘comment’ below my original blog...

I have been learning from my son this morning about logarithmic scales which COBR are using in constructing the graphs used at Government...

We are all learning new ways of doing things. My technical adviser, aka my son, Jonathan, decided that the book slot on the blog wasn't...

There has been much discussion already as to how our experience with this pandemic will affect the way we conduct our politics in the...

In an earlier blog I made mention of The Black Death, and, in that connection, the work of the American historian and biologist, Walter...

Who guards the guardians? or, who watches the watchers? A quotation from the Roman author Juvenal writing in the early second century CE....

Following on from my first blog about Poitou Donkeys and Pyrennean Mountain Dogs, I am now turning to three birds and their rewilding...

* Important things first! Re-aligning of football's finances. * Acceleration of the replacement of cash in daily transactions. *...

Warning: For those of you who may not know me, I never expect you to agree with my opinions. Adult Education is all about challenging...

As we cannot go on holidays for the foreseeable future, we can nevertheless look back on those we have enjoyed. A few years ago my wife...

Something I had intended to set up 4 years ago, before retirement inertia set in. The present virus crisis has finally forced my hand....