The Times obit on Freddie Forsyth says he left the BBC in 1967 because he displeased powerful people by his reporting from Biafra. Not quite. As a very junior BBC subeditor I spotted how he was introducing Biafran propaganda into his reports and told my boss. Forsyth was

I sat beside a woman who asked me for my pudding.

My last novel The Sandpit was about Iran’s nuclear programme.

It's Father's Day season, but never a bad time to share a wonderful tribute to a grandmother...moving work from Michael Prior... "Have I been careless with the past?"

Canada has spent 250 years fighting American aggression. Here we go again. macleans.ca/society/canada…

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BREAKING: Videos are now surfacing on social media of ICE agents quietly leaving immigration court in San Diego empty handed after Bishop Michael Pham made good on his promise to escort migrants to their appointments on World Refugee Day. This is a developing story.

for me it was algebra

This is fast becoming the face of America.

History will regard Robert Sarah not as prophetic but as symptomatic.

Edith Sitwell accounted for the Second World War as a recurrence of the dancing madness.

I know the feeling.

BREAKING: ICE is asking people to stop clogging their hotline by calling in and reporting an undocumented girl named “Anne Frank” hiding in the top floor of various Republican lawmakers’ houses.

#StillHappening:

I think this is the highest expression of indolence: I purchased online, and had delivered to my door, a pair of slippers.

I've learned a new word: thigmotropism. It is the tendency of a plant to curve or grow in response to contact with a solid object. Nature really is kind of spooky.

Trump wants to deport large numbers of people and expand the borders of the United States -- I guess he would wind up deporting the same people again and again.

Looking forward to this debut! Guy Elston was my student in University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. A brilliant poet. Highly recommended!

In honor of Independence Day, here's a video of Marco Rubio crying when Pope Francis called on Americans to respect the dignity of immigrants seeking a better way of life in the United States.

Think of Jose Villa who, in his poems, put a comma after every word.