Sometimes old things happen in new places.

In my world there are dozens of square shelves in a large upright box. There are many such boxes in a long row, many such rows in a huge room, many such rooms in an enormous facility, many such facilities…

The first day had been shattering: frigid winds, wet grey concrete underpasses, impassable growth in abandoned highway margins, fetid pools of water in miserable corners. At some point he slumped slowly down a wall, sitting in dampness, as far into the black mouth of an abandoned subway tunnel as he dared…

The animals of the Serengeti, remote mountain villages in Tanzania, paradise in Zanzibar and culture…

I was caught up in madness at Heathrow over the weekend on my way back from Seattle, and the experience has been playing on my mind ever since.

The basic facts are relatively unremarkable: British Airways had a computer systems problem and thus all flights were cancelled…

When Donald Trump began to do well in the Republican primaries I waited for sanity to reassert itself, and for one of the ‘stronger’ candidates to push him aside. But it didn’t happen. When he entered the race as the Republican nominee, I thought the GOP had handed the White House…