by Phil Hall King Faisal is considered by Saudis – and by many others – to have been the greatest Saudi of the 20th century and a hero of the developing world. He paid for his heroism dearly with his life. The whole Arab world believes the USA had King…
An introduction to The Rights of Man and Fish by Paul Halas History is bunk, to quote Henry Ford – which, of course, ignores the wider context of what he said, but then he wanted to sell us motor cars and probably wasn’t all that interested in the truth of…
Criminal lunacy sans frontiers and the meaning of 9/11 by Tony Hall In 2001, just after the Twin Towers were hit, my brother-in-law, who was a minister in the Mexican government at the time, called me and asked me: ‘Phil, what do you think of what’s just happened?’ I thought…
An old Rosemary Russet in Wisley Gardens , Phil Hall 2021 by Phil Hall Eating an apple is like drinking milk. Apples come from a living organism, a relative. The original apple was a fig. Our ancestors co-evolved with fig trees. We are a by-product of fig tree ecology –…
by Phil Hall My first taste memory is of ripe apricots. The apricots had fallen onto warm sand, so the fruit was lightly dusted. Its flesh was soft and loose under a fine felt skin and underneath that flesh was a sharp-edged, black pip. Though hungry, I only took one…
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