I’ve had a host of messages – well, three – regretting my decision to give up blogging, and pleading with me to come back. So here I am again; presently preparing for our journey back to Blighty – by car to Rotterdam and then overnight ferry to Hull – where we should arrive next Monday morning, staying in the UK for about a month. That will take in the British general election, where I hope I shall be able to vote in person, despite having been granted a postal vote (I didn’t expect the election so soon); and having just voted in the EU election, using my dual Swedish citizenship. Scandinavia, incidentally, seems to have bucked the right-wing trend in Europe generally, with the Left and Greens doing better, and the Sverigedemokraterna (proto-Fascists) falling back. Why doesn’t the British media report that?

I’m presently engaged in writing a ‘My Life and Times’ sort of book, probably not for general readers, but privately published (if at all), and for my kids. There’ll be a chapter on my time at Cambridge, for the Corpus freshman who wrote to me recently asking about that. But nothing too personal.