A decree was signed by Erdogan on 10 July 2020 to ‘re-convert’ the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, following the ruling by a Turkish court to annul the decision made by Kemal’s Ataturk’s cabinet in 1935 to convert the building, which was a mosque for nearly five hundred years, since around 1453 when Constantinople was […]

First published on 7 July 2020 My first trip to Sydney, Australia, 2003 One of the boards at the Botanical Garden, providing a story of what happened  to the Aboriginal people in Australia, 2003  The first time I remember learning something about Australia was in 1973 or 1974 during a special presentation at our school […]

4 July 2020 This is the pond that I discuss in the blog  Since coming to London at the age of ten in the early 1970s, I have had no direct experience of snakes. Unlike when I was a child in Bangladesh, the several times I saw these dreaded reptiles were through glass barriers at […]