A Shot in the Dark There’s a new sheriff in town. Italy’s most recent Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, ordered the country shutdown for the next 5-6 weeks. Infection rates spiked and areas that were yellow and orange turned red. For …
Position: 36°07’45″N 115°09’0″W Having entered the post-truth epoch four years ago, the nautically inclined are now entering the era of post-captaining. Boat owners and their boats can look forward to a time when the experience and nous of a skilled …
Having completed our whirlwind tour of the three contiguous countries of the United Kingdom and celebrated my 60th birthday, I’ve got a pretty good sense of how far “Thatcher’s Bloody Britain” has evolved. I was fortunate enough to live in …
Hi Guys – Marlon here. You know, I’ve had a lot of time to think about things in the past few weeks. I know you peoples think I’m just snuggling up and sleeping with you, but under the hood my …
“Tropical sun – it will burn the skin off your nose and the butter off your toast.” – Boris Spinovsky As the months slide by down here 12 degrees north of the equator, the Sun makes its inevitable way northwards. …
Context I’ll start by saying I’m a Remainer. I have been all my adult life. When I moved back to England in 1977 questions of Europe, the Common Market, and the UK’s role in it were rife. Eurosceptics abounded. Things …
It’s not clear to me why people’s attitudes towards bureaucracy generally aren’t more like the gun lobby’s. Dang it! Why shouldn’t I be able to drive a car as fast as it will go? Or walk my pet alligator onto …
Sometimes the Brit in me can’t stand it and I get all Basil Fawlty about life. Here’s the New York Times playing Sybil (in Basil’s mind). Imagine, if you will, the NYT on Mastermind, special subject: the bleedin’ obvious. That …
WARNING: This entry includes fruity British colloquialisms for which no apology is made – ed. There’s a Brit that’s best avoided – but is all the same unavoidable. When I lived in London we used to call them wide boys, …
