[25th April 2011]
The link to the original piece is here. This is the piece:
FOUR American yachters killed; a Danish family of five and two crew members kidnapped: these events in the space of a week early this year may finally fuel a consensus that something needs ...
[1st April 2011]
Lorries don't sign autographs. How then have the thousand lorries of Eddie Stobart Express Haulage - painted green, gold and red - acquired 30,000 fans? For the last ten years, increasing numbers of men and women have been paying to receive constant updates of a ...
[7th March 2011]
I've written something for the iPad newspaper The Daily, on piracy. There is a link for the iPad-less (like me), here.
[18th February 2011]
The French like a good strike. But the strikes of 1895 were unusual even for them, because it was the Dames-Pipi, tenders of the city's public toilets, who were furious at the removal of the oil stoves they used for warmth. They won. These ...
[4th February 2011]
I don't knit. But I may learn by Monday, because next week is Woolly Hat Week, when the kind-hearted of Britain are asked to wear a woolly hat to work, in honour of the world's seafarers. They would also like donations, of course, or even ...
[25th January 2011]
I did an interview with Marty Moss-Coane on Philadelphia's public radio station WHYY this morning. We talked mostly about seafaring, with a little bit of sewage thrown in. The show - Radio Times - has a site here. And here is an MP3 ...
[23rd January 2011]
It was only late afternoon, but already dark and stormy, on the Thursday of the week before Christmas 2009, when the cargo freighter Danny FII approached the Lebanese port of Tripoli en route from Uruguay to Syria. She carried 18,000 cattle, 10,000 sheep and 83 ...