“Now the eyes of my eyes are opened”

In praise of trees and life generally.

Social media: Anything goes!

Stephen Fry was right to call for greater regulation.

Human rights are sacrosanct

The USA is threatening to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council. How petty-minded can Trump get?

“I hope you can let this go…”

Americans have a historic opportunity to remove Donald J. Trump and to avert a catastrophe.

A plug for Charles Dickens on the 147th anniversary of his death

Dickens’s attention to detail in his novels is often astonishing.

A crisis faces the world’s ancient forests

No apology for returning to an issue that should cause an international outcry.

The Pickwick Papers: “A source of amusing and pleasant recollection”

Published 180 years ago, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club became Charles Dickens’s first full-length book.