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FED UP WITH POLITICS? A SMILE IS ALWAYS HANDY 15 November 2024
After months of paying undue attention to political pomposity calculated to intimidate the indecisive, flatter the fools and fool the feckless, a break is in order. Ergo, I resolved to record one thing that made me smile each day between my last perch post and this one. SATURDAY: The Facebook birthday announcement for a friend […]
BALM FOR THE TRUMP AGAIN BLUES 8 November 2024
Despite the inevitable knock on repercussions, as a non-American it’s not really my place to pass judgement on the presidential election. But in the spirit of “share your pain”, herewith some wisdom (none original), as comfort for my American friends who may be distraught, grieving, perplexed, disbelieving, incensed, depressed…etc. While making no claim to be […]
CYNICS AND SCEPTICS ARE TWINNING 1 November 2024
Like everyone else I know in the tribe of working journalists, I think being sceptical is a useful, if not indispensable tool of the trade, and tend to dispute being a cynic. But I’m beginning to think both journalists and news consumers have reason and need to embrace the two philosophies.… Read the rest The […]
CONFIDENCE ISN’T AS ADVERTISED 25 October 2024
Approaching the end of my annual sojourn of immersing myself more in Nature than the “real world”, I thought I’d learned quite a lot about both. An encounter with a loon, an advert, a gadget and bedroom slippers put a kink in my confidence-cum-conceit. The loon was one of those delightful, serendipitous moments that are […]
A SEASON OF LESSONS 18 October 2024
Autumn this year isn’t exactly what the poet John Keats described as : “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,/Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun . . “. But it does, I think, provide a good metaphor for looking at the world in what one global affairs writer characterised as “the most dangerous period internationally since […]
A CLASSIC SATIRE GETS REAL 11 October 2024
To safeguard his job, the foreign editor in Evelyn Waugh’s “Scoop” parries his proprietor’s patently idiotic ideas by replying: “Up to a point, Lord Copper.” Today’s version of the hapless editor are the news executives so craven they willingly allow politicians and polemicists to say whatever they want, including distortions and outright lies, without insisting […]
A REQUEST FROM MY PERCH 7 October 2024
In keeping with website’s claim of “Welcome to an Atypical Perspective”, I’m requesting a favour from readers. Larry Doyle, a friend, former colleague and avid “Perch” reader is a member of a discussion group that encompasses the spectrum of American political opinions, persuasions and arguments. He’s seeking insight from “perch” readers outside the U.S.… Read […]
OPTING OUT IS FINE, UNTIL YOU GO BACK IN 4 October 2024
The only drawback to opting out of the news, as I’ve just done for three weeks, is that dropping back in again has prompted a worrying sense of futility about my life-long obsession with it. Forty-one years ago this month, in a dingy building in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, a scowling man with a neatly trimmed […]
WHERE CLIMATE IS KING 28 September 2024
As I write this, I’m looking out across a (thankfully) gently rolling gray expanse of the North Atlantic. It’s strange to see an unbroken horizon after a week of cruising among the icebergs and daunting cliffs of islands in the Canadian High Arctic. The ancestors of the Inuit people who live there arrived about 5,000 […]
THE SPLENDOUR OF AN UNFORGIVING LAND 20 September 2024
“Greenland is Nature’s reminder of its utter indifference to humankind”. I have no idea of who said that, but a week of cruising and visiting small villages along a coastline that truly merits the much overworked adjective “awesome” has given me reason to celebrate it. The Viking adventurers who were the first Europeans to brave […]

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