Back to the UK. I find travelling very tiring. (I can’t wait for them to invent that instantaneous transporter they had in Star Trek.) So, no time and little energy to blog. And nothing new to say about the tragedies and craziness around us – Alleppo, Trump, and so on. Is this the ‘worst of times’?

In the meantime here’s a link to my current LRB piece. (I didn’t choose the headline. It sounds like Trump.)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n20/bernard-porter/send-more-blondes