How do you to create a coherent narrative to present complex historic trends to an audience of non-specialists? I decided to use my personal experience to illustrate them. I was invited to be the speaker at the White Cliffs U3A August meeting, and was delighted to accept. That was way back in March, but the...Read More

[Note: I wrote this piece in 2013 as the British Government sought Parliamentary approval to intervene militarily in Syria. The subsequent years of stalemate in the gruesome civil war have been catastrophic for Syrian people and society]. Some people have asked for my opinion about whether Britain should ‘intervene’ in the Syrian Civil War, and...Read More