Courage. Discipline. Respect for others. Integrity. Loyalty. Selfless commitment.
First are posts on my journey as a writer. The struggles, and what I have learnt. Maybe they will provide other authors with helpful insights. I do hope so.
May 1, 2026
The Beginnings
Like most, I came to writing by accident. Divorce was the first real spur. My sojourn in that particular wilderness gave me a great deal to get off my chest. And sitting in the frigid interior of the yacht to which life had banished me, hammering away at the keys of …
May 9, 2026
Aristotle
Aristotle The army has a habit of leaving soldiers in places where the stories make themselves. I started keeping notes. At the time it was for no particular reason. Now I am grateful, the notes jog my memory, fuel my writing. One late …
May 15, 2026
Knowledge Gap
There is another thing I have learnt from David Baboulene. It is a learning I immediately grasped. And have been unable to ignore ever since. Nowadays – post Bab, as I like to term it – I can hardly watch …
These are all my posts so far. They cover a wide range of topics in my area of interest. And some would say, expertise!
April 17, 2026
Israel – The Hamas attacks
Whitehall, London 7 October 2023. It is an unseasonably warm mid-autumn in London. The trees in the great parks are a blur of orange and russet and the bright green grass is pockmarked by fallen leaves. Clear blue skies suspend …
April 15, 2026
Israel’s 100th birthday
(* The following is n imagined a reconstruction based on documented accounts of Netanyahu’s Bible study gatherings.) It is a mild late autumn day and the yellow Jerusalem stone of the Prime Minister’s angular residence on Balfour street is bathed …
April 7, 2026
Israel’s Mossad – an assassination too far
Amman, Jordan The skies over Jordan’s capital city are a shimmering blue, the temperature hovering at a comfortable 24 degrees Celsius. Khaled Meshal gazes thoughtfully from the window of his Mercedes at the traffic teeming between the tightly packed residences …
April 3, 2026
Understanding the Conflict between Arabs and Persians in the Middle East
When the West ventures east, it ventures east with all the preconceptions borne of hundreds of years of its own development pathway. It meets, on arrival in the hot and dusty airports of Dubai, of Baghdad, Amman or Beirut, a …
March 31, 2026
The Shia Revival – Israel’s real problem
At 6 foot 6 inches tall Seyyid Musa al Sadr is a striking figure. The black turban he wears is adjusted at a jaunty angle, tipped back on his head, a fringe of dark hair curling from its edge. His …
March 27, 2026
Palestine Action – Freedom to protest
Everyone’s arguing about Palestine. Reality: the UK government just criminalised protest, got slapped down by the High Court, and showed us exactly how freedom dies. Pay attention.” In the aftermath of 911, the Bush administration ordered the FBI to hand …
March 24, 2026
Alex Pretti
Alex Pretti was on the ground, disarmed, pepper-sprayed, restrained by multiple ICE agents. Then he was shot dead. One question changes everything: why? Those who regard the death – now formally declared a homicide – of Alex Pretti on a …
March 20, 2026
Gordon Brown and Honour
Gordon Brown says we need better systems to clean up politics. One question: Why did you give Mandelson a peerage after he’d already resigned twice? Systems don’t fix dishonour. Values do. Gordon Brown has for long functioned as a sort …
March 17, 2026
The Washington Post Post
The Washington Post’s motto: ‘Democracy dies in darkness.’ Then Jeff Bezos took $50 billion in government contracts, kissed Trump’s ring, and proved democracy dies in broad daylight too. The Washington Post, winner of multiple Pullitzer prizes and famed for exposing …
March 13, 2026
Even the criminal underclass despises a snitch
While everyone debates Labour’s policies, Anas Sarwar just committed political suicide. He demanded Starmer resign. In Britain, disloyalty is unforgivable. Ask Heseltine. Ask Gove. From the late sixteenth to the mid twentieth century a tiny island nation in the middle …