An Abbott and two Bishops. Are we actually being governed by some weird splinter faction of the Catholic Church?

Proud of a conversation I had, in German, with the guy in the corner shop just now. He met me just inside the door, and rolled his eyes vehemently. “I was just about to close!” With a sigh he swung his swag of chains – yes, chains, that’s how you shut up a shop in […]

It seems to me the central stupidity of the revolutionary mindset is, it says: You can’t use the same kind of thinking to build the future as you used to build the past. So we need to destroy McDonalds, overthrow the government, raze the Catholic church, etc. But what is this doing? It’s using the […]

On my last day in Berlin I visited at last the Museuminsel, Island of Museums. It feels strange to ride an arched bridge onto an island on your bike. The island being castled with stately buildings filled with treasures only makes it the stranger. My favourite was the first, which holds treasures rescued or stolen […]

I’ve cycled past this jazz club in town maybe half a dozen times & never had the nerve to go in. Today in the afternoon sunlight both the doors were standing open and, oddly, two tables with bottles of soft drink stood at the entrance guarded by ribbed plastic cups. A handsome-looking man was pouring. […]