Thomas Asbridge’s profile as a new, upcoming popular historian with a purpose was already significant before his appearance - opposite Tony Robinson - on a programme debunking that Dan Brown book. His acadmic standing is founded upon his timely The First Crusade: a new history; “timely” as it is part of a new wave of [...]
An overnight stay in Hong Kong, fresh from a chilling fortnight in Northern Europe; fewer contrasts capture the myth of the Globalisation thesis.
Tough buggers, birthdays. Birthdays … these millstones. The thought of such a long commitment scares the adult into me.
Tallinn is no longer the merely “ex-Soviet outpost” that we knew and loved; cultured, confident and consumer-centric, Estonians are now revelling as part of the new, “new” Europe despite the despicable arrogance of their near-neighbour Finns. Fancy [...]
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