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High in the mountains, at the heart of Kyrgyzstan Thanks to the driver, we reach the pass at 3,400 metres - very cold, but we did arrive.  T...

At the last fork in the road for us: up to Margib, down to the Yaghnob valley.  Two huge peaks lour over the village here, green follows the...

By the   cathedral   in the old town.  The smell of drains, and a light rain falling.  A characteristic feature of the houses in this distri...

I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...

A list of links to all my non-tech writings: Essays Glanglish   - with audio versions  -  new post Travel writings Moody's Black Noteboo...

Since Elon Musk is trying to ban any mention of Mastodon on Twitter, I thought I'd just make it as easy as possible to find me on the fo...

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...