the view from fanling

In the late 1970s, I attended an interview for a post with the BBC’s Far East and Latin American Service, during which I raised the question...

Although I’ve enjoyed a lot of the music produced by bands and singers whose careers began after 1970, my tastes in popular music were mould...

Most [tourists] come to view the picturesque scenery, but a complaint I’ve heard often concerns the rain. But what do people expect? The La...

These fragments I have shored against my ruins. T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land . Rise and Fall chronicles the melancholy recent history of...