Herry's Journal

Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff, whom I have long admired since reading his superb biography of  Isaiah Berlin , has given us some fasci...

KPCC I am a great fan of KPCC, part of the US National Public Radio (NPR) network of non-political radio stations much like the BBC. Indeed ...

The garden lights now come on automatically based on a movement sensor I began putting lights in the garden a few years ago, first down the ...

  "The pandemic has killed many people. And the pandemic is because we killed nature. The UN has admitted we are only treating the symp...

  Gules Wingate-Saul (right) with Julian Avery, John Collard and Richard Smith. Anglesea Arms, London 2026 Photo by Herry. Giles Wingate Win...

It took me several years to realise that I would never be satisfied with the two beds next to the drive, one overshadowed as is by the ancie...

John Kennedy  In 1963, Kennedy was invited to Amherst College to give  talk  honouring Robert Frost who had recently died. These are  excerp...

On 8th October 2021 the Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire, Andrew Kent, came to Stockbridge to thank all those who had played a significant par...

Following the closure of all C of E churches (ie not Catholic ones) in March 2020 because of the pandemic, many people became very disillusi...

  This plaster cast from a display at the British Museum has recently been installed at Old Swan House.  It has given rise to a discussion o...