Charles Ellingworth

Ushant, as the English write and say it, or Ouessant as it is in French, is the last outpost of France, the island at the end of Brittany wh...

Charm is the ability to elicit the answer yes before the question is asked. So said Jean Cocteau. But it’s an attribute that has connotation...

I have always been fascinated by JG Ballard and his gimlet-eyed, unblinking view of humanity and modernity - but had never read this; the po...

Doubtful Sound is an inlet going ten miles into the Fjiordland of South Island in New Zealand. It was discovered by Captain Cook on his firs...

Is your phone listening to you? I don’t mean collecting your data from your search or viewing activity  - but actually listening to you.  ...

This is from What I Learned This Week - about the way Big Tech is now conducting a grand experiment with AI on our society.  With social med...

I have recently read a wonderful book by Liv Olson called Last Hope Island, about the experience of countries in continental Europe that we...