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Four thirty in the morning and all is quiet. I have sat and watched as the other guests have shuffled slowly into the room, groggy and disoriented. No-one has quite finished with their dreams. The evening before, a ferocious storm had electrified the sky and kept us all awake. It has also taken down the
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It’s impossible to explain how inspiring and wonderful this guy was. Better that you simply listen to him. A principled, caring, intelligent and humane person, persecuted by the US Department of Justice, for trying to defend public access to information. A unique voice has been stifled. RIP Aaron.
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Tourists flying into Amsterdam may not notice that the map of the city contained inside their in-flight magazines is different to the one they would have encountered a year ago. Where once the city map would have provided an overview of the arched canals, the Dam Square and the Vondel Park, one area of the
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As constitutionally momentous occasions go, Monday October 15th, was a rather subdued affair. Two men sat down together in Edinburgh and quietly signed an agreement. The news coverage was brief and no panic or hullabaloo was reported on the streets. Yet the agreement that was signed that day, now dubbed the “Edinburgh Agreement”, could herald
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The striking thing about many classic fairytales is the often violent and macabre nature of the stories that are told within them. Gruesome and outlandish tales where death, destruction and magic all merge into one rollicking good tale that inspires fear and pleasure in equal measure. Because for all their ghoulishness, read them aloud
