The pursuit of food, wine, arts, travel, literature and music in civilised company … especially in Italy, India, England and France

Notting Hill
Joined January 2009
Doubt if Trump will be coming soon for a Buckingham Palace Banquet as too afraid of massive protests bound to greet him - apart from Moscow, Minsk or Pyongyang are there any world capitals where he could venture with no such risk? Even Tel Aviv, Rome or Budapest wouldn't work...
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My piece on the fall of Saigon in today's Financial Times. This month is the fiftieth anniversary. Please RT. on.ft.com/3EkG8Vs
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My book of 2025, the foreign adventures of the great travel writer Norman Lewis, superbly edited & collected by the founder of Eland Books, John Hatt, who has done more than anyone to resurrect Lewis from the dusty unread. Eland is still incapable of publishing a dud book.
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Latest Goalhanger Podcast: The Rest is Classified, debits with the CIA/MI6 Iranian Regime `Change in 1953 - my take on the coup madtomsalmanac.blogspot.com/…
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V Good news that The Promise, Peter Kosminsky's brilliant drama about the Israeli/Palestine conflict, is now streaming after an absence of more than a decade from our screens - a must watch channel4.com/programmes/the-…
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Trump knows neither Gaetz nor Kennedy will be approved by the Senate - they are merely bones for his base and also allow him to blame whatever future problems there are, on Deep State obstructing his attempts to drain the swamp theguardian.com/us-news/2024…
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Does anyone know how to stream "Where's my Roy Cohn" in the UK? Seems it simply isn't around and keen to view it
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nytimes.com/2024/06/30/us/po… If he remains on the ticket, he will be personally responsible for four more years of Trump. As if PM Chamberlain refused to go to make way for Churchill because he just had a bad day at the office...over to you Clinton and Obama to make him see sense
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