Some links to sites reflecting current and past activities, interests and experiences:
For a list of links from my blog to (mainly) other favourite blogs, please click here, and find the ouch-named 'Blogroll' in the right-hand panel (it should be at the top of the screen but you might need to scroll down to it). If you don't see a list of clickable links under 'Blogroll', just click on the double down-arrows against 'Blogroll' to open it out. Some of these are more fully described below; most of the rest on this page are links to websites but not necessarily blogs.
- The website and (especially) blog of the re-designer and architect of this website, Owen Barder, a mine of information on all matters to do with politics, economics, international development, running, cycling, diet and a few hundred other topics. You can go straight to his blog if you wish. (Yes, we are by some chance related.)
- My granddaughter Lily's website, recording her career so far as actor, singer, dancer, and all-round performer, still in her early teens.
- A blog post by Owen Barder describing his job as Director of Global Development Effectiveness at the British government's Department for International Development, on which he embarked following his return from two years in California working for the Center for Global Development.
- The website of an expert on the history and practice of diplomacy, Professor Geoff Berridge, full of information on the teaching and study of diplomacy (he is also one of the two editors of the Dictionary of Diplomacy for whose two editions so far I have been the editorial consultant).
- There's the web site of
The
Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
which needs your money to help it to continue its work for the severely
disabled (see, for example, the
home page of someone who knows it well because he lives there:
Peter)
- and the organisation that helps him to talk on-line, U CAN DO I.T. . . .) - The excellent blog of Tony Hatfield, on politics and much else.
- Tim Worstall's blog, full of information about blogging, among other things. Tim is bringing out a book of British blogs late in 2005.
- The websites of the civil liberties organisations Liberty and Justice. Please join one or the other, or both.
- A lively message board written by Tom Berney and Peter Harvey for controversial but courteous discussion of politics and current affairs, "UK and World Politics".
- What has happened over the years on my birthday.
and a few more that connect in their various ways to my own career and interests:
Pictures of the St Catharine's College (Cambridge) Six (1954-57) and some of their ladies, at their first reunion in nearly 45 years - June 2000 (click on the thumbnail below to see full size picture).
Postscript: In May 2003 one of the most active of the original Cath's Six,
John Ockenden, died after a short illness. John played an indispensable
role in maintaining contacts between us all, encouraging us to attend College
dinners, and providing his own generous hospitality. We shall always miss
him.
and, not least, -
the
British Labour Party in spite of everything
Amnesty
International
Oxfam
The Centre for Speech and Debate of the English-Speaking Union