It's likely that, in an attempt to leave you feeling slightly less gloomy at the end of today's inevitably depressing news, the pres...

A couple of posts ago, I was marvelling at reviving a trip I did  back in 2014  to Kakadu in the Northern Territory,  for a recent story. We...

There are some horribly big numbers out there right now: the US recently reached the chilling milestone of one million Covid deaths, and the...

While I was otherwise occupied, my brain drifted off this morning and dredged up Mnangagwa from ages ago. I'm guessing it was prompted b...

  All hail the internet! It was way back in 2014 when I did this trip to Kakadu in the Northern Territory, but it was easy to check up on th...

I haven't been to Ukraine, but I have been to Russia. Well, Moscow, for just a couple of nights, on our multi-hop return from NZ to the ...

It's lovely to be distracted from all the horrible world news by the discovery in Antarctica, 3000m underneath the increasingly solid su...