Ten years from now

On our walk today I saw two dead pigeons. I spotted one when some other birds were jumping up around it. I thought from a distance that they were pigeons, too. I could see small feathers in a big circle. When we got near I could see it had deep wounds around its neck. So…

The Week reproduced this report under the title Cox’s Bazar, Refugees left at sea: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, packed into boats in the Bay of Bengal, are at risk of starving to death, as countries are refusing them entry owing to coronavirus fears. Amnesty International says it knows of five such boats waiting off the…

In 1872, Susan B Anthony was convicted and fined for attempting to vote in her hometown of Rochester, New York. Six years later, in 1878, Anthony and her colleague Elizabeth Cady Stanton had an amendment put before Congress giving women the right to vote. It became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.

Germany, Pale Mother is a film made in 1980 about a woman who goes through WWII unmarked by events, and is brought up short by an event that affects her in a way she did not foresee. If I seem to be being purposely vague it is so that if you see this film you…

CambridgeshireLive has a map with a legend that reads: Cambridgeshire The first confirmed case in Cambridgeshire was announced on March 10. A location was not made public. On March 14, there was four confirmed cases. By March 16, there was twelve. As of March 30, there have been 109. Cambridgeshire County Council There have been…

The number of people I see conducting job interviews and job assessments in cafes. I feel embarrassed on behalf of people interviewed or assessed in a public setting. Why do they put up with it (scared of not getting or of losing their jobs)? Do they feel embarrassed at all? Perhaps they don’t. Do the…