John Pearson considers the efficacy of climate (and other) protests The Climate Crisis is not something that can be read about, reflected upon and then set aside. Each of us, individually, with our hearts and consciences fully deployed as much as our intellects, have...
Penny Mawdsley, whose A Penn’orth column was a valued regular in Sofia, sadly died on Sunday 9th of March. John Pearson offers a brief reflection on her life.
What to offer you in this, my last article in what has, after all, become something of a series? ‘Re-cycle, re-cycle’ has come through firmly, I hope, as something of a repeated mantra and thus I could end by simply re-stating things I have looked at to date – might...
I am not by nature what I would call a great wine drinker, though I do have a slight fondness for claret, to which I was first introduced by a friend at SOF Conferences back in the late 1990s when these were invariably ‘live’ residential events. Each night at dinner...
John Pearson considers the arguments for and against the death penalty.