So the answer to my riddle Has Sidcup changed? is an emphatic No! It hasn’t changed not even one tiny bit! Except that now it’s full of drunk people pretending to be Mexican.

On Monday I will be visiting the town of my childhood for the first time in over 20 years. I wonder if it has changed at all? I wonder if I have? Sidcup The name is thought to be derived … Continue reading →

Even their ballads are played with an intensity more appropriate on a battlefield. Continue reading →

I read about America’s worst mom when she became famous last year. Continue reading →

The law wants things to be completely legal or completely illegal while morality is rarely so black and white. Continue reading →

I wonder what the change is relative to 2004?

Whenever I read something crazy in the Times – usually by Brooks – I bookmark it with the intention to blog my reaction. I have a whole backlog of Brooks columns to comment on and half-written posts brim full of … Continue reading →

“The United States is a country that takes human rights seriously. We do not torture. It’s against our laws and against our values. And we expect all those who serve America to conduct themselves accordingly, and we enforce those rules…America … Continue reading →

Lawrence Wilkerson on Cheney Third–and here comes the blistering fact–when Cheney claims that if President Obama stops “the Cheney method of interrogation and torture”, the nation will be in danger, he is perverting the facts once again. But in a … Continue reading →

In a couple of short weeks, I am off to sunny Spain. I can’t wait.