Booklovers' Guide To Wine

  In 1969 or 1970, freshly graduated from university with a degree in philosophy, I joined PriceWaterhouse & Co as a Chartered Accounta...

 Democracy vs Dictatorship My lifelong faith in Democracy is being sorely tested as I witness the daily clown-show in Washington D.C.  Obser...

  In an article for the Guardian on September 5, 2023, Elif Batuman described how she decided to use ChatGPT to help her locate a half-remem...

On July 1, 1946, two days before I was born, the Americans conducted the first in a series of nuclear tests called ‘Operation Crossroads’. T...

 My current work in progress is a book about how the world has changed since I was born in 1946. I will post excerpts here, from time to tim...