Exploring the Roundwood House library and literary links
Staying in a country house that has beautiful places to sit quietly and watch the world go by must surely count as one of life’s…
The Republican Party
The Grand Ol’ Party ain’t what it used to be. Most certainly it is not the political organisation led by Abraham Lincoln. It is hard…
The War On Drugs
We are hopelessly locked into a cruel and unwinnable war. A repeat of the first hundred years one. I am referring to the war on…
The Brexit Enigma ….
 ... January 2022 Brexit is the royalty of twenty first century enigmas. In a world which has decided that economics and money are more important…
Love in a Cooler Climate
Even as sleep began drifting away, Adas knew he was a happy man. As he awoke fully, he began to wallow in the reasons for…
The Status Quo
Like everything else, Civilisation is in the throes of extreme societal upheaval. Of itself, this is not exactly an unknown condition. When we changed from…
The Irish Examiner, April 10 2021
Letters to the Editor: Big Tech and Anonymity In my lifetime (a long one), I have never known a key industry to be allowed such…
Big Tech and AnonymityÂ
Democratic societies are in trouble. Don’t just take my word for it, look at two of the world’s leading democracies; the U.S. and the U.K.…
The Ogre Has Gone
Yes! Gone. Not gone into hiding for a while: just gone, not to reappear until sometime in the future, when politics invents a completely new,…
The American Constitution for Laypeople
Why should a layperson write about a legal document? Because it is an important one, and while nearly all opinions that concern the law are…
The World Today as Viewed Through a Lens in 2120
Dateline: November 2120 Note: The authors, Sienna Mboya and Amélie Paralogos are both great grandchildren of Frank and Rosemarie Kennan, the originators of this blog…