Rimbovalia Thoughts and ideas about writing, thinking, loving and believing

Every time we listen to British politicians explaining why we are still in Afghanistan, we hear nonsense.  The idea that our being there protects us from being bombed in Britain was always weak, and completely meaningless once we heard suicide … Continue reading →

As we enter a deepening international financial crisis, yet again, I look to the past for clues.  What happened when Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Northern Rock went down? How did we avert  complete disaster each time?  After all the global … Continue reading →

As one who loves Paris, I am embarrassed to find that not only did I come to the estimable anonsparis blog rather late, but I didn’t know until recently about another useful site called Paris Secret.  It’s essentially a portal … Continue reading →

HM The Queen is 85 this year.  She is so attuned to the demands of duty that she would perfectly understand it if it became known that the planning for the Accession proclamation, if not the Coronation of King Charles … Continue reading →

World War II, as we all know, was a grim ordeal, a global storm which caused suffering and death for millions.  Yet, here and there in the corners of the battlefield, fortunate young people in their late teens and early … Continue reading →

As I am a foreigner, there’s a natural limit to what I can say about any US presidential elections.  This is true for billions of other people in the world.  But we feel we can at least ask a question … Continue reading →

I’ve told this story before, but now’s the time to tell it again.  When Harold Macmillan was mulling over whom to nominate to succeed Geoffrey Fisher as Archbishop of Canterbury, one of those he considered was Michael Ramsey, a former … Continue reading →

Every time I visit Paris, I get a kick out of spotting street names with a particular resonance or mystery about them, such as Rue du Roi de Sicile in the Marais.  But there are plenty of evocative names on … Continue reading →