Deira Diary

In a post-Brexit time of national uncertainty and economic struggle, it’s perhaps logical that the death of the grandmother of the nation sh...

Both main UK political parties have for more than a decade betrayed parliamentary democracy in favour of a US primary-type method for electi...

I am once again putting rubber to the tarmac and running the Hastings Half-Marathon  on March 20th. I am doing it for two reasons: exercise ...

I am on an assignment: to work out what I want with what’s left of my life and how I can ensure that I am stable, perhaps even happy, with w...

Perhaps I keep going back to Penge because living there nearly a half century ago was the last time I experienced being part of what I thoug...

The new single by The Big Believe 'Doin’ My Utmost' C/W 'Hundreds' is a writing collaboration between Amanda Thompson and D...

Passion, anger, self-righteousness, humility, equivocation. It’s all in here. Unsurprisingly this late period Pete Townshend/Who song says m...