The Golden Notebook
I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade.
Bermondsey Beer Mile
The Bermondsey Beer Mile does keep evolving, so it’s worth checking with venues before rocking up, but as of the end of 2021, this map was accurate for taprooms, bars and breweries on the Bermondsey Beer Mile. These are the current featured breweries: Southwark...
Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek
The cliche is blamed for spoiling language and style. While this may be true, its destructive power is much more profound. The cliche blurs the difference between truth and untruth. If it were not for cliches, there wouldn’t be demagogues and public lies, and it...
Arabian Sands
I arrived back in Salala on 16 October 1946. I planned to cross the Empty Quarter from Mughshin to the Trucial Coast, and to return to Salala across the gravel steppes at the back of Oman, but I realized that if a hint of my plans reached the Wali he would forbid the...