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Back in November, during the UK's second lockdown, I put online my novel about travel and tourism – " Egyptian Romance " – sin...

In 1990, before I had a go at writing a couple of novels, I put together Glanglish, a collection of short essays.  They are about nothing in...

Once again, many people are under lockdown.  Once again, travel is hard, or impossible.  During the first lockdown, I published my black not...

I have two great regrets in my life.  One is eating a chicken sandwich in Varanasi, shortly before flying to Kathmandu.  This gave me the w...

Just as  A Partial India  was a re-working of  my   travel   notebook  for India, so  Walks with Lorenzetti  re-visits  a 1988 trip I made ...

In October and November 1986, I went to India for the first time.  It was an important experience,  which I tried to capture as it happened...

As people may have heard, there is a rather important vote on Brexit tomorrow.  It's going to be very close, so I would like to urge e...

As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...

Yesterday, I wrote a post asking people to write to their MEPs about the imminent vote in the European Parliament on the Copyright Directi...

Back in June, I wrote a long post about the proposed update to EU copyright law. As I explained, there are some bad ideas being proposed , ...

Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on whether to send its version of the Copyright Directive text to "trilogues" for fina...

A couple of weeks ago, I urged people to write to their MEPs about an important vote in the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parl...

Next week, a crucial vote will be held by the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament (JURI). It concerns the proposed copyrigh...

There's an important series of Brexit votes taking place tomorrow.  The UK government will seek to overturn some sensible amendments ma...