Not all those who wander, or who wonder, are lost
There has been a lot said and written about people having to work from home during this Covid-19 pandemic. Many companies are having to put measures in place to allow this, and having to find new ways of working. But what about the people that work for these companies? And, particularly, what about those who …
A few years ago I took a few days holiday and decided to spend the first two days in the fells of Cumbria, in the heart of the Lake District. I set off from home at about 8 in the morning, stopped for lunch and was pleased to find that by 1330 I had parked …
Thirty years ago today, Pan Am Flight 103 was en route from London to New York with 259 people on board. A bomb hidden in a suitcase detonated, and as the plane fell parts of it landed on the small market town of Lockerbie, killing 11 people on the ground. This was pre-Al Qaeda, pre-9/11, …
As part of National Hate Crime Awareness Week, I thought I'd share a post I wrote some time ago... I visited Auschwitz in 2014: what I saw there still haunts me to this day. I've visited the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, and I've visited the Holocaust centre in Oslo. I'm …
Trails and Travails 