ASH Smyth 3/25/23 ASH Smyth 3/25/23

News At A Glance #35

The first moon-landing, LYCRA®, late-autumn wasps, and 1998. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 3/4/23 ASH Smyth 3/4/23

All the books in the library of the Concordia Bay ferry from East to West Falkland (and vice versa), as at 25.3.23

From Confessions of an Opium-Eater to The Complete Vegetable Grower.

ASH Smyth 2/22/23 ASH Smyth 2/22/23

News At A Glance #34

Gollum, Whoopi Goldberg, penguins, and dentistry. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 2/12/23 ASH Smyth 2/12/23

News At A Glance #33

Bavarian royals, Dracula, The Godfather, and Gridiron. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 1/27/23 ASH Smyth 1/27/23

News At A Glance #32

Denzel Washington, fat cells, playful males, and Uruguayan politicians. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 12/16/22 ASH Smyth 12/16/22

News At A Glance #31

Matthew McConaughey, Ted Hughes, pork pies, and Tristram Shandy. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 12/5/22 ASH Smyth 12/5/22

News At A Glance #30

Hildegard von Bingen, Cara Delevingne, orgasms, and adultery. The Emigre’s latest round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 11/13/22 ASH Smyth 11/13/22

Brothers in Arms

ASH Smyth looks out over mist-covered mountains, on Remembrance Sunday.

ASH Smyth 11/8/22 ASH Smyth 11/8/22

News At A Glance #29

The Queen, Steve McQueen, Butterflies, and the Bishop of Worcester. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 10/28/22 ASH Smyth 10/28/22

News At A Glance #28

Breasts, Bolsheviks, Goethe, and Gayle King. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 10/21/22 ASH Smyth 10/21/22

News At A Glance #27

Misunderstood women, unstable regimes, psychoanalysts, and lost IQ. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 10/8/22 ASH Smyth 10/8/22

News At A Glance #26

Wormholes, Nando’s, Dire Straits, and Norwegian literature. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 10/3/22 ASH Smyth 10/3/22

News At A Glance #25

Knock knock jokes, hot communists, undertakers, and rats. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 9/17/22 ASH Smyth 9/17/22

News At A Glance #24

Birdsong, long sonnets, stinkbugs, and Facebook disinformation. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 9/10/22 ASH Smyth 9/10/22

News At A Glance #23

Jennifer Grey, Sir Roger Moore, loose chickens, and disrobed Irishmen. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 9/5/22 ASH Smyth 9/5/22

News At A Glance #22

George Orwell, Liz Truss, Count Binface, and toilet paper. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 8/30/22 ASH Smyth 8/30/22

News At A Glance #21

African hack, big girls, Dominic West, and Jesus Christ. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 8/19/22 ASH Smyth 8/19/22

News At A Glance #20

Machine Gun Kelly, High Valyrian, giant flamingoes, and sick turkeys. The Emigre’s weekly round-up of world news.

ASH Smyth 8/16/22 ASH Smyth 8/16/22

Midnight’s Coincidence

ASH Smyth finds he has Sir Salman Rushdie on his mind — whether he means to or not.

ASH Smyth 8/14/22 ASH Smyth 8/14/22

Falklands Day-vis

On Falklands Day, a note on the Elizabethan mariner John Davis, so-called ‘discoverer’ of the Falkland Islands.