Before the barbaric Lebanon incursion and the mass migration and illegal settlement of Jews from places such as Russia in the 1990’s, Israel, a state created as a homeland (in 1947) for persecuted Jews, received almost total Western support in their battles with Arabs as they sought to maintain their new homeland.
However, a UK poll last week suggested that just 15% of British people sympathise with Israeli aggression and the treatment of ...
Well, the week has so far has gone without too much alarm but with plenty of incident where things could easily have descended into mayhem or possible violence aimed at me, courtesy of my Friend Kate.
More of that later.
A good part of the week has seen me drifting around on my own, which I think represents a bit of a gamble as, when I left England, I wasn't entirely sure whether I would embrace my own company or hate it. It's not that ...
Well we arrived in Turkey on Monday night after a torrid fight surrounded by some of the most cretinous people I have had the misfortune to have come across during my 46 year stay on planet Earth.
I suppose (with all due respect to my friends from Colchester) flying from Essex is always going to constitute something of a gamble and I was blessed with a family who’s excitement towards getting on plane was bordering on manic.
The ...
I went off on a weekend trip to Berlin with my oldest friends at the weekend, a visit that was supposedly part culture and part getting hammered. I am pleased to announce we managed to do both, the former with some aplomb.
Upon arriving, we checked into the Park Hotel, which handily, is the biggest hotel in Berlin and is virtually impossible to miss even with 10-15 litres of German brew swilling around in your gut.
The Park Inn is part of ...
Sorry about the delay on this post…Busy busy and all that.
Last Thursday, on my little jaunt down to Suffolk to see Stuart, he decided to take me along the east coast to to Southwold, a little seaside village that in effect, is in the middle of nowhere and a hour and a half drive from Colchester.
When we arrived after what seemed an eternity of flat landscape through oldie world villages, the breeze had a chill and the clouds were ...
