Yesterday a chance came up to cross the border, but the circumstances were a bit unpropitious. The situation at the crossing is quite difficult - there are several different gates between Tunisia proper and Libya proper, for various passport or administrative checks, and men with guns at all of them. So what happens is that me and Elodie, my ( Read more... )

I am in London again, just for a couple of days. Work suddenly gave me some leave and, on the spur of the moment pretty much, I decided to come over and try and meet up with some friends I haven't seen for ages. Unfortunately this backfired, since most of them, understandably I suppose, found that 48 hours wasn't enough notice to clear up their ( Read more... )

OK, before I get down to avoiding work this morning, I was delighted to see that The Guardian have also seen those Giles Coren emails I mentioned yesterday (and even ran with the same headline as me!).  If you enjoyed that, read this, which has even more detail and abuse.  I happen to think Coren is a bit of a twat, but the Guardian journo seems ( Read more... )