A couple of years ago I was walking Camino trails in Spain. The longest of them was a path from Sevilla to Santiago. It was just over 1000 km and took me about 40 days. Now, in my mid 70s, I walk a...
...miles or kilometres? Watching a television programme about the foundation of the SAS an early scene showed trucks with enough fuel for a 500km journey stopping on their 500 mile trip. That seems...
...either, when a woman teacher married she had to resign from her job. That might have happened in other professions too.
What was the thinking behind regulations?...
The radio news mentioned a mystery from France. A Polish worker, while drunk, told his girlfriend and some of his fellow workers that he'd killed a woman cyclist. After knocking her down he drove on...
Frying a couple of eggs this morning I threw a slice of bread into the pan. For those who don't know it, fried bread is very tasty but probably shouldn't be a regular part of the diet. Is there any...
This was in Belfast. Have similar deaths occurred across the UK? How would our health service rate if compared with those of other European countries?...
...the UK would the authorities here do their utmost to stop them reaching their goal?
I think not. So, why should we expect the French to act against their own best interest by helping us?...
I read in the news that a young man was stabbed to death in the Jericho area of Oxford last night. I know there are some council estates in that city, would the Jericho area be considered a risky...
If convicted under the rules of joint enterprise all will go down as murderers. While it's difficult to have any sympathy with them, those who engaged in horseplay and now find themselves facing...
If the earth continues to warm, for whatever reason, could mankind prove Eliot wrong? Will we eventually see wars for natural resources and living space be the end of us all?