Italian Antidotes

I have just spent twenty-four hours without coffee or tea and I have to, reluctantly, admit

The Smiling Spy Turns Ninety

In 2010 I wrote a post about George Blake and I'm

Books and Reading

I've just finished the new biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Artemis Cooper. One of the things that

Australia v Britain

To the evolving Australia v Britain list, initiated by my

Things I Never Knew about Canberra

A Canberra MP (Labor, it almost goes without saying, given that Canberra is a Labor city) had

Abandoned Places

I've been reading a book by Rose Macaulay about ruins lately and also reading

Honoured

A VC was awarded to an Australian soldier, Corporal Daniel Keighran, the other