A field guide to understanding modern life for Terrans, Aliens and grandparents. Chapter 1: Alzheimer’s to Ayn Rand A is for Alzheimer’s. What did you say? And even though we must all know by now to exercise and sleep more, cut down sugar and carbs, to avoid benzodiazepines, to learn foreign languages and to keep our creative…

How Leavers expect Remainers to make a success of Brexit. — A few more hours are left of the UK being officially in the EU. I’m sad. In truth, I feel a shattering sense of loss. Outside, church bells are tolling for a funeral, but in Britain, it feels like a burial of another kind. Brexiters are celebrating…

The Somme of the EU 1st-2nd July 1916–1st-2nd July 2016