Anak si Hamid

We're moving into our second week of Ramadan.  It's a time for pondering about long-lost days, about how and whether I have put to g...

What is the link between ikan bakar ....... ....... the Euro 2012 mascots, Slavek and Slavko ..........   and our venerable  Be...

Tourism  has become, for most countries without resources, a most profitable industry.  This year the Olympics will bring to Britain, hopefu...

     Shocked?    Well, Tim Black from "Spiked" wrote the above when he reviewed Eric Kaufmann's  "Shall the Religious Inh...

In 1798, the priest and economist Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) concluded from a study of plants and animals that man's excessive rate ...

The view from my window during our stay throughout most of April, May and June Well, what a journey!  Firstly the flight from London to ...

We have taken many great train journeys, from big ones like the journey across the Deccan Plateau from Bombay to Madras to little ones lik...