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Update: I first wrote this blog in the summer, long before the Paris attacks. I didn’t publish it at the time because it really did sound too extreme. But on reflection, I think that the events of the last 7 days have more than justified publishing the post now. In my earlier post I suggested […]
As many of the visitors to this site will know, I was fortunate to have been one of the guests on the very popular Saturday Live programme this weekend. It was great to meet Richard Coles and Asmaa Mir, both of whom were really welcoming and interested in everyone’s stories. Even the production team afterwards […]
Caption: Contemplating the interior of a little known Synagogue in Budapest with Sandor. I have deliberately waited a few days before concluding this short series of posts about my meeting with Sandor. I think in part to allow the event to really sink in, rather than allowing it to be something that needed to be […]
Taking the train: final destination Budapest. Tuesday 3rd November 2015 It’s been very last minute but I am on my way to a country I have never been to, to meet a man I have never met. I am finally fulfilling a personal journey that started in the bitter cold of Auschwitz in 2007 and […]
We always knew that a threat existed against all things Western, but the massacre on the beach in Sousse was still a shock. So should we be surprised? Growing up in the Cold War era, our lives were dominated by the existential threat of communism and images of the Red Army’s tanks rolling towards the […]
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So Glasgow, what a place. I came up today for two meetings and then hung out in George Square, my first time downtown Glasgow. And what a great first impression. Mind you the day started badly. I never even thought to check the weather forecast and assumed it was as warm as at home. What […]
As a former Gurkha officer and someone who spent three months in Nepal studying Nepali in 2004, the tragedy that struck the country last weekend is heartbreaking. While I was there I spent time in Kathmandu and in Pokhara where I was based, but also in Gorkha, a little known town in between the two. The […]
Why am I writing a blog about a small peninsula in Turkey? Lone Pine Cemetery – one of many Commonwealth War Graves in Gallipoli In 2008 I was lucky enough to visit this remarkable place with other international military colleagues, including two Australians who were there for the first time. Having read a lot about […]
Ade Clewlow MBE 