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Highlands and Holy Lands: Observations from Civilisation
While I find a ten-day getaway, each year, to some remote part or other of the British Isles to be conducive to my state of mental well-being, it can also leave me feeling rather worse than when I lef… more →
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Highlands and Holy Lands: Observations from Civilisation
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wrote 8 months ago: While I find a ten-day getaway, each year, to some remote part or other of the British Isles to be c … more →
The Diamond Jubilee: A right Royal piss-take
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wrote 11 months ago: There is a long list of things beyond my feeblish comprehension. Close to the top of it, however, is … more →
Just scum, innit
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wrote 1 year ago: “What is going on in England, Mike?!” Recent unrest in the Mother Country has given Israeli friends … more →
Vedding?! . . . Ye call dat a vedding?!
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wrote 2 years ago: Having ignored invitations to various Anglo-Israeli Royal Wedding bashes – quite apart from my alrea … more →
In the Rudest of Health (The Israeli, Part III)
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wrote 2 years ago: “You’ve got too much to say!” So North-West London’s most famous French teacher would often chide hi … more →
England, Your England
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wrote 3 years ago: “Sorry,” he proffered, as he inadvertently passed between me and the bookshelf. “Bloody hell” I thou … more →
The Israeli male, a philistine with a small pee
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wrote 3 years ago: Taking a Shabbes afternoon stroll through Jaffa last weekend, and feeling the effects of a liquid br … more →
Hating the French . . . racist, or merely human?!
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wrote 3 years ago: Walking the streets of Tel Aviv these days, it is impossible to go very far without one’s hear … more →
Hendon: Just Nostalgic Illusion?
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wrote 3 years ago: But not for long . . . Hendon-but-not-for-long This was the street sign idea I proposed, as a s … more →
melchett mike's Rosh Hashanah Message
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wrote 3 years ago: Dear Friends (well, that’s how “Sacksy” starts), Dalia, one of the Rothschild kiosk quar … more →
Why I Am Not (Really) an Englishman
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wrote 3 years ago: The most frequent question I get asked, by Israelis and non-Israelis alike, is why I moved to Israel … more →
Islamofascists and the BNP, the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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wrote 3 years ago: Watching the shocking (if it could really be called that) news last week that – for the first time … more →
The Israeli
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wrote 4 years ago: A friend in London, who is in a perpetual state of considering Aliyah (emigration to Israel), e-mail … more →
