by Peter Marshall | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog, Society
‘Neo-Hippies’ are back, it seems, in fashion. But I suspect many are like ‘neo-capitalists’ with little conscience. Perhaps it is being like Sir Richard Branson with his long hair on his private Caribbean island with ex-President Obama and his wife while travellers on...
by Peter Marshall | Jan 31, 2017 | Blog, Society
Donald Trump is absurd. He is not only a racist and misogynist and believes in torture but an extreme right-winger who denies the existence of climate change. It seems that the American people, particularly the poor, the unemployed and the dispossessed, have now voted...
by Peter Marshall | Nov 29, 2016 | Blog, Cuba, Society
The ‘Jefe Maximo’ (Supreme Leader) Fidel Castro is dead. He may have become been a towering figure in the 20th century but for many he was a highly controversial and divisive one. His brother Raúl,aged 85 and head of the military forces, continues as president of...
by Peter Marshall | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, Society
I’ve been going to Turkey’s Western and Southern shores for the last five years.I have got to know well the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean. My most recent book ‘Poseidon’s Realm: A Voyage around the Aegean’ is mainly about sailing...
by Peter Marshall | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog, Society
I have voted in the referendum to leave the European Union mainly for the following reasons: I would rather be a citizen of the world rather than a member of a narrow,largely white,undemocratic, centralized, capitalist superstate of Europe. I don’t see why 70...
by Peter Marshall | Mar 6, 2015 | Blog, Society
It seems that we are in the middle of a mass extinction, the sixth on this Earth. Previously this was due to natural phenomena but this one is largely due to human processes. In the last 40 years alone, half of the world’s animals have died out. At present we are...
