Sitemap - 2023 - The Endless Chain

The sixth sense at work on the information superhighway

When they went to West Africa

The crime of owing more than you’ve got

Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander

Cool runnings

The supreme Mr Trump

The Christmas story

Streaming boys

Death: a change of perspective

It’s only rok and role, but I like it

Are we there yet?

Due process of law

Christmas presents

Substance over form

Twelve men good and true

I am not registered in Panama

The Three Estates of the modern régime

Who wants to live for ever?

Blessed are ... America’s gun laws

A Fairytale

Coded conduct

A slow shortcut to Saint-Louis

Sworn translators stabbed in the back by their own licensing authority

Eyes of needles

Quiet, and quite happy

The “The”

Hoe vrolijk je iemand op die in het ZH ligt?

Tea: the best drink of the day

Authentic German

Ich gehe eben nach draußen; es könnte etwas dauern

Shut that door

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

Faith, hope and charity: St Paul’s three great virtues

Childhood memories—darkened

Water cannot be thwarted

From the river to the sea

Honking and waving

The privileges and burdens of statesmanship

Ever-mutating anti-semitism

Slavemaan? For Peace’s sake!

I’ll have what she’s having

Boots, boots, boots, boots, moving up and down again

On gender-neutral forms

Rules are made to be broken—by rules

A Christmas carol

Walk on

How I write—Comment j'écris—Hoe ik schrijf

Tick, tick, tick: we have ways of making you tok

Choosing our words carefully

A Strange Land

A letter to the red cross

On migration, employment and community

Matthew Perry: a friend

Lead us not into temptation

To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous translation

Some things are best left unsaid

The distinctive quality of a name

Nothing needs to make sense

The greenhouse effect explained

Waiting For The Remains Of This Olé House

Stand with Ukraine

The punishment fits the crime

How do you know a telephone is a telephone?

On reforming the United Nations

You cut, I’ll choose

J’existe

What's the matter with me? Don't I care?

Ruing

Terror on the doorsteps of Belgium

Typical Dutch

Name this child

There must be no Cs for effort

The price of safety; the greed of the gatekeeper

Week-middling: Airline security; HAMAS; Muskraine

On Earth, as it is in Heaven

Fired up

Your life in their paper bag

Ruskinesque proximity shunned

Striking boys

Quietly, from Belfast to Bucha

The eternal, limited lifespan of plastic

My personal acquaintance with migration

Dwelling on: gamer morality in the real world

¿Para ser más feliz?

A love that dare not speak its name

Turning without forward and reverse gears.

Junk science makes for junk justice [update 27.09.23] [UPDATE 02.10.23]

A time of waste

Comparisons: three

A tale of heads

East west, home’s best

Suicide is painless

At the tender age of 30

A journey to generosity

Ker-lunk!

A lost chord

Every little counts

A date that will live in infamy

Wisdom supplanted by wile

Three journeys without satnav

On freedom of speech

Rape, homosexuality and murder – compared in common parlance

Shame; what a shame

Mourning queens

A strike for justice, or a race to the booty?

Milan Kundera: a life reconstructed contra preferentem

A doctors note

Life's purpose: a train trip to our destiny

Zeit, tangerines and dreams

A street named progress

Exploring the unknown universe - of negotiation

If you want to know the way, don’t ask a policeman

Blessed are ...

Honest is honest

Une épreuve titanesque de nos principes

Weekending 23 June 2023

Will the Earth move for us?

Move like a rocket

The right side of a safe border

Poor little Belgium

Please give: you'll be paid back, so that you can give again

A foreseeable future

Hamlet in Hamtramck

Weekending 16 June 2023

For how many seasons are you?

Damages are bingo. But people like bingo.

The Brussels Congress Column and its Freedom Quarter

Kill'im, Arthur, kill'im!

The capacity tariff's sword of Damocles

No names, no pack drill, no punishment

The case for Gone With The Wind

Wrap-up W/E 9 June 2023

You can please some of the Henrys some of the time

Is AI tangible proof of God?

Neo-Nazi musketeers

Wrap-up: fortnight ending 4 June 2023

On plausible deniability

I wouldn't trust them to post a letter

Acid is bitter

Superstition and electricity

Our judgment of a misadventure

Sack trucks and the Ukrainian war

Millet’s Gleaners

Va. Et venir

Full service provision, but no mind-reading

I am proud of my shame

Plain sailing for stockholders

L'union fait la force

Wrap-up of the week: W/E 19 May 2023

Community

I am just going outside and may be some time

We never had it so free

National anthems as propaganda

Democracy without the separation of powers is unworthy of the name

Wrap-up of the week: W/E 12 May 2023

The Stripper

Sir Edward's First

Time: it flexes like a whore

The Oxford disunion

The way life's meant to be

Always ask an expert

Everybody loves a party

No long sentences

Where is the world where I used to stay?

Position and privilege are eroding the rule of law

“Just switch the power off!” said the Justice Minister

Charles III: we love you. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Get lost

Who do people think they hate?

How resolute the resolve to prevent disaster?

LA ... but confidential: a cherished memory

There's something in the water

The Pathétique of Peter

Peter Singer: luxury is immoral

Fighting for democracy: war is no child's play

The world, it doth equivocate

Dogs in the manger?

ProPublica's accusations of impropriety against Supreme Court Justice Thomas

Will democracy prevail?

Pure, unadulterated, extra-virgin olive oil

The rationale for stealing jewellery

As I survey the wond’rous dross

No earthly connection

Can you resist a Pickup bar?

What is fluency?

Freedom and democracy are incompatible

OpenAI, Oxfam, Delhaize and Baluwo

An endless chain

A deranged brutal year

A far-off war of which we know little

A courageous trooper, soldiering for peace

Sanda Dia and the Reuzegom fraternity

Silicon Valley Bank

All the world's a stage

Philadelphia and small boats

Superstition and photography

Entrenchment in the Russo-Ukrainian War

The elf's story

Homosexuality and money-laundering

An approach to translating the law

Determinedly going it alone

Eyes wide shut

A bird in the hand is worth two on the lake

A year of tears

Shocking images

No going back?

Retained earnings

Piles of stones

The bastard Henry Canning

Henry IV's guilt

The shame of Elon Musk

Must you have an interest in peace to want to broker it?

What language do you speak?

Suicide isn't painless

Standing for parliament

We want freedom and fear slavery

Ukraine needs tanks

Achieving by trying. Naturally. Life after death

"Light blue touchpaper and stand well clear."

Anarchy in the UK-raine: pondering black lines

When to buy end-of-shelf-life produce

Rochford isn't where it's at for gay men

Lobbying: a game, or democracy distorted?

We shall never surrender