Bath & the Somerset Levels

7 Apr

The last day of March continued Britain’s unseasonal heatwave. I wandered the Kennet & Avon Canal towpath, a stone’s throw from the Georgian splendour of Bath city centre … … to encounter nature red in tooth and claw. (I’m pretty … Read More »

Fighting talk from the EU: Part 2

24 Mar

UK daily, The Independent, yesterday: Keir Starmer hailed his “good relationship” with Donald Trump just hours before the US President’s special envoy slammed the PM’s Ukraine peace plan as “a posture and a pose”. Steve Witkoff said the Labour leader’s idea of a peacekeeping force made up … Read More »