The organization of the articles on this site is chronological, but, unlike many blogs, the articles do not sink down into oblivion after a while. Even elderly articles may be updated. Updates are always additions to articles, not corrections of existing content.

Last updated Published Article title
2024-03-28 2024-01-12 The Horizon scandal
2024-02-26 2024-02-23 Immigration and the lost world
2023-06-27 2017-12-24 A Christmas Carol revisited
2023-05-25 2016-08-15 The Odyssean shipwreck
2022-07-20 2022-07-20 Boris Notgodunov
2021-10-29 2021-10-24 The larch ascending
2021-10-26 2021-10-26 The Trick
2020-10-22 2019-09-09 Franz Schubert and Ludwig Rellstab
2020-10-22 2018-07-30 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Der Zürchersee
2020-08-20 2020-08-17 Plague notes, ad interim
2020-08-14 2020-08-14 Butch browsing
2020-07-18 2020-07-16 Blacking out for Britain
2020-07-11 2019-01-13 Friedrich Rückert – Kindertodtenlieder
2020-04-30 2020-04-28 The American shambles
2020-04-01 2020-03-24 Exposing yourself to COVID-19
2020-03-26 2020-03-12 COVID-19: time to start worrying?
2020-02-26 2020-02-25 Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
2020-02-16 2020-01-05 Schubert portrait Whac-A-Mole
2020-02-15 2020-02-14 Swiss neutrality decoded
2019-11-13 2019-11-12 Wrecking the Brexit Party brand
2019-11-13 2019-06-16 Goethe on ice
2019-10-30 2019-04-15 Isaiah the Obscured
2019-10-21 2019-10-20 Switzerland has voted!
2019-10-20 2019-10-15 Dividing the two Irelands
2019-10-15 2019-10-14 The green daydream
2019-10-07 2019-09-19 Boris™ in the bunker
2019-10-05 2019-10-04 Green steering charges
2019-10-04 2019-08-28 The chestnut tree at the gate
2019-09-30 2019-09-27 The trembling aspen
2019-09-30 2018-09-30 Warm beds and elevated feelings
2019-09-28 2018-03-11 Going to the dogs
2019-09-19 2019-09-18 David Cameron
2019-09-15 2019-08-14 Franz Schubert and Heinrich Heine
2019-07-30 2018-04-05 On the French road to nowhere
2019-07-28 2019-04-01 Switzerland
2019-07-28 2018-08-13 Google, facebook, Switzerland – peas in a pod
2019-07-28 2018-02-24 The PostAuto car crash
2019-07-28 2016-10-03 Babi Yar
2019-07-16 2019-04-11 All things Winterreise
2019-06-12 2019-06-08 Diving deep into Goethe's Der Fischer
2019-05-28 2019-05-23 Not a portrait of Franz Schubert
2019-05-27 2019-05-27 The European Parliament election 2019
2019-05-26 2019-05-06 19 May: Another day, another referendum
2019-05-14 2019-05-13 Franz Schubert's Mensch
2019-05-08 2019-05-05 5 May 1799: A little local difficulty in Switzerland
2019-05-08 2018-07-08 Franz Schubert below stairs
2019-04-26 2019-04-24 Two fabled stones from Graubünden
2019-04-20 2019-04-03 Scientists – dontcha luv em?
2019-04-17 2019-04-16 Notre Dame: What now?
2019-04-15 2018-11-06 Blasphemy redux
2019-04-10 2019-03-20 Heloise Höchner's first and last love
2019-01-06 2018-07-17 The Poetry Bookshop 1913-1935
2018-12-17 2018-12-09 13 December: Saint Lucy's Day
2018-11-27 2016-10-20 Schiaparelli
2018-10-31 2018-10-30 That German right-wing landslide
2018-10-16 2018-10-10 Digital servitude
2018-10-13 2018-06-25 5 July 1948: 70 years of the NHS soup kitchen
2018-10-03 2015-11-01 All Saints' Day, 1 November
2018-09-18 2018-09-17 Schubert's downward spiral, 1827
2018-09-18 2018-01-05 Mistrust of strangers
2018-09-07 2018-09-01 Franz Schubert in search of lost time
2018-07-18 2018-05-21 British Republic Day
2018-07-13 2018-05-18 Brexit and Ireland
2018-06-27 2018-06-03 3 June 1828: Fugue at midnight
2018-06-14 2018-05-28 Tommy Robinson: jailbird
2018-06-11 2018-05-26 German transgender gender
2018-06-06 2018-05-23 Serious advice for all men
2018-05-21 2018-05-20 Staring into the cultural abyss
2018-05-17 2018-05-17 Suicide by cop in Gaza
2018-05-10 2018-05-08 The New Hambacher Fest 2018
2018-05-05 2018-05-02 5 May 1818: Marxmas
2018-04-28 2018-04-27 The hydrogen fuel cell takes flight
2018-04-05 2016-12-28 On the road to nowhere
2018-03-24 2018-03-06 The Sound of Martial Music
2018-03-04 2018-02-01 Pulling the plug on the Swiss broadcaster
2018-02-25 2018-02-08 It's a hard life at the FBI
2018-02-24 2018-02-21 Kippered Kirsty: a lesson to us all
2018-02-24 2018-02-01 The Peter Principle – May extension
2018-02-14 2018-01-24 January 1818: Franz Schubert dodges the draft
2018-02-10 2018-02-10 Martin… er… who?
2018-02-07 2018-02-02 Desperately hating Donald
2018-01-30 2018-01-18 Swiss Government-sponsored CAGW alarmism
2018-01-14 2018-01-14 The Base and the Superstructure
2017-12-13 2017-12-05 4 December: Saint Barbara's Day
2017-11-27 2017-11-22 Squaring circles in Berlin
2017-11-19 2017-09-20 1775. Lili: the first Gotthard journey
2017-11-19 2017-03-16 Zurich-Petrograd, one-way
2017-11-07 2016-10-26 The Man in Black: an expert writes
2017-11-06 2017-09-28 Luddites of the world, unite!
2017-11-06 2017-08-10 Moral money
2017-11-05 2017-10-07 An outrageous libel of a dead hero
2017-10-17 2017-09-25 No change, please – we're German
2017-10-06 2017-10-05 Mrs Shopping-List meets Pericles
2017-09-30 2017-09-26 The AfD: the uncouth, the amateur, the gormless.
2017-07-25 2017-06-01 Goethe's Heidenröslein
2017-07-10 2017-07-04 Stephen Hawking speaks
2017-07-03 2017-07-03 Dr Weather and Mr Climate
2017-06-29 2017-06-25 Herd management
2017-06-20 2017-06-19 The pursuit of happiness
2017-05-21 2017-05-17 The future of energy in Switzerland
2017-03-03 2017-03-01 Schubert: from child to musical genius
2017-02-14 2017-01-09 Deutschland, Deutschland über alles
2017-02-05 2017-01-21 Climate scientists
2017-02-04 2017-01-19 Pie-in-the-sky charts
2017-02-03 2016-12-26 Backup hell: a visit to the crypt
2017-01-27 2017-01-24 Figures of Speech discussion group
2017-01-26 2017-01-23 Bedlam through the peephole
2017-01-23 2017-01-15 Charlie to the rescue
2017-01-04 2016-12-15 Energy made easy
2017-01-03 2016-08-23 Artificial Intelligence
2016-12-11 2016-05-08 Saving time
2016-11-16 2016-03-24 Bedsheet, spreadsheet
2016-11-10 2016-11-07 Climate cognitive dissonance
2016-10-29 2016-08-27 Climate alarmism
2016-10-25 2016-10-02 Bible studies
2016-10-24 2016-10-23 Freedom of speech
2016-10-04 2016-07-10 Devaluing the family
2016-09-21 2016-09-13 Churchill in Zurich
2016-09-20 2016-09-19 Channelled speech
2016-09-01 2016-08-26 Citroën DS23
2016-08-16 2016-04-14 Richard North
2016-07-12 2016-07-08 Andrea Leadsom, next Prime Minister of the UK
2016-07-01 2015-11-12 Antisocial media
2016-06-25 2016-06-22 The fine art of wonderment
2016-06-24 2016-06-09 The alien hatches
2016-06-23 2016-06-03 No X please, you're not British
2016-06-09 2016-06-08 Carbon dioxide: the science is settling nicely
2016-06-09 2016-06-06 Ignorant? Uninformed? Thick?
2016-05-07 2016-01-25 Not like us
2016-04-14 2015-10-16 Who are you calling a snob?
2016-03-24 2016-03-18 Lenten thoughts, newly assembled
2016-03-03 2016-02-22 Swiss democracy, seriously compromised
2016-02-29 2015-12-07 Solar Impulse
2016-02-26 2016-02-26 Language Lab
2016-02-10 2015-11-28 Shaken, stirred and rusted
2016-02-10 2015-11-19 Enlightenment redux
2016-02-06 2016-01-17 Mohammed: not my prophet
2016-02-05 2015-10-13 EU referendum: No thank you!
2016-01-27 2015-11-01 How to lose money
2016-01-26 2016-01-26 Rabid lexicography
2016-01-10 2016-01-09 Sharing the risk
2016-01-09 2016-01-03 Rockers do it better