Notes From A Small Island

The Railroading of Omar Khadr By Becky Akers – Campaign for Liberty – 11/03/10 This time, it’s not just liberty’s lovers excoriating Our Rul...

The suicide bomber who killed eight people inside a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan a few weeksago  was a Jordanian doctor recruited by Jord...

Obama is going to India. With 40 aircraft and 6 armoured cars . Mrs Obama also insisted their two kids should come along as well. Prepare ...

These guys are not only wearing Al Capone fedoras, and a ridiculous kippah, but the man in the middle is wearing a daft turban (and an over-...

The President of the United States of America, probably the most powerful nation-state on earth, has cancelled a visit to the Sikh Golden Te...

I don't know if you've ever eaten petto d'oca, smoked goose breast; it is seriously delicious and good, and puts mere pork ham ...

  This weird inhabitant of our mangroves and creeksides is an Osong or Mud Lobster; Thalassina anomala . It builds large mounds of mud a...

Besides Birgus latro , we have several quite different land crabs around here. They're true crabs that have taken to living on land, or ...

My wonderful next door neighbour has done it again - first he stole the copy from my website  and pretended he'd written it himself. Now...

You might not think that this is a very appetising looking fish. I can assure you it is, and very much sought after. This English site s...

Herbert died last night, just before his scheduled release into the wild (well, my garden). I don't know why he expired so suddenly; I f...

My piglets are now 6 weeks old, so I am going to sacrifice 2 of them as lechon de leche - genuine suckling pigs, and invite a few friends to...