by P.G. Davies | Jun 7, 2026 | blog
Having had no option but to arrive early in London (think Iran, other people’s business diaries), I have been doing a bit of the Tommy Tourist, which one day meant going to Hampton Court. It would have been a pleasurable experience if not for the hordes of small...
by P.G. Davies | May 30, 2026 | blog
London bound again this time on Singapore Airlines. I am looking forward to visiting Singapore again as I used to have a close association with it, but I have not been there for nearly 30 years. When I first started my career a long, long time ago, Singapore...
by P.G. Davies | May 10, 2026 | blog
In the Australian Financial Review this week I read an article that the French have four public holidays in May. According to a French intellectual this is because ‘we live in a country where obligations are imposed on citizens because they are not consumers first. ...
by P.G. Davies | Apr 16, 2026 | blog
So Mad March is over. The Festival and the Fringe are gone, and the Writers’ Festival never was, much to my dismay. It is such a rich source of material with the bien-pensant, like geese, being force-fed more of what they already believe. The echo chamber would have...
by P.G. Davies | Feb 28, 2026 | blog
Last week I was invited to lunch at a golf club. Not my usual hangout but as a writer seeking source material I always give something a go. To be fair I have played a few rounds of golf in the past but gave up as somehow it did not have the physical contact I was...
