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# Nathaniel Handy

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- [AI stole my em dash](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/ai-stole-my-em-dash/) - I used to use the em dash was my secret weapon. Now everything’s changed. Like a kid in a sweet shop, AI is comically overusing every trick in the trade
- [Freedom from pain](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/freedom-from-pain/) - We moan about civilization and go camping, hiking, fishing whenever we can. But despite all its ills, civilization offers one magic pill: freedom from pain
- [Terms & conditions apply](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/terms-conditions-apply/) - I am updating my terms & conditions. I offered myself for free to friends and family for a very generous introductory period. Now it's subscription-only.
- [Posh English baddies](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/posh-english-baddies/) - Have you ever noticed how the voice of the baddie in almost every cartoon – from Disney classics and Hollywood blockbusters to BBC faves – is posh English?
- [Does god exist?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/does-god-exist/) - This 5-minute read reveals the answer at last to a question that has vexed human minds since the dawn of time, whether God or gods exist.
- [Your phone knows best](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/your-phone-knows-best/) - Grumpy old man alert! Yes, my new phone is bigger, more intelligent and, well, a lot more in-yer-face than my old phone. But is that progress?
- [No stilettos please, we’re Swedish!](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/no-stilettos-please-were-swedish/) - Clothing has played a socio-political role in society for as long as humans have worn it. That includes shoes, as a staff shoe subsidy veto list makes clear
- [A dispatch from 1880](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/a-dispatch-from-1880/) - In 1880, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky published a description of the state of human society as summarised by one of his characters. Here it is.
- [Men, women and paper](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/men-women-and-paper/) - History is written by the powerful – and they are usually men. But have you ever considered what history is written on? Paper has its own story to tell
- [Zeds and zees](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/zeds-and-zees/) - English and American English have their differences. Tomato, tomato. Sidewalk, pavement. Trunk, boot. But what's with zed and zee? Surely there was no need?
- [Hug a hoodie?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/hug-a-hoodie/) - Summer is riot season. But whatever side of political divides the rioters are on, a common denominator is the smashing up and looting of shabby high streets
- [Losing a sense of place](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/losing-a-sense-of-place/) - This is the shelter Bush Trolls built in the forest. Then the forest was clear cut around it. The experience of returning to find the forest gone was profound
- [Sweden, England and the letter Y](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/sweden-england-and-the-letter-y/) - There’s a lot that’s funny about the Swedish language. To English ears, the sound of it is probably the funniest part. Why else does the Swedish chef exist? (The Swedish chef exists?) But surely the funniest single letter in the Swedish alphabet (and there’s some stiff competition, in the form of Å, Ä and Ö)
- [Believing in Santa ](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/believing-in-santa/) - My son still believes in Santa. Just. A girl in his class at school was sceptical this year, and even suggested that parents did it. He said that was stupid of her to say, because if Santa heard her (and he hears everything, right?) then he won’t be bringing any presents to her this year.
- [Why am I so tired?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-am-i-so-tired/) - ‘Why am I so tired all the time’ reached an all-time high in US google searches in June 2023. People didn’t ask another person. They didn’t ask themselves. They didn’t know, so they asked their computers. They asked a search engine to tell them why. Ask AI what’s wrong AI isn’t something that will happen soon, it’s already happening. Confronted with the fact that I feel tired
- [Politics is looks](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/politics-is-looks/) - The defining factor of Emmanuel Macron’s entire presidency, if he were to resign tomorrow, would for me be the chest hair. Does that make me vapid? The only thing missing was a Galousies discreetly nestled between index and middle fingers. The defining thing about Rishi Sunak is surely his suits. My, that man’s dapper. The
- [Rest in peace, Ike and Tina](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/rest-in-peace-ike-and-tina/) - This week, a legend passed. Tina Turner has been a defining voice of my life. Once heard, she wasn’t forgotten. We don’t need another hero. Her voice was brilliantly described by Juggy Murray of Sue Records, who was played one of her early recordings by her musical and romantic partner, Ike Turner: “Tina sounded like
- [Nature can be annoying. Good](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/nature-can-be-annoying-good/) - Clouds burst. Bulls charge. Birds shit. Sometimes nature just annoys us. Other times, valleys swoop, flowers bloom and sunlight dapples. So, is it ok for us to change nature the moment it irritates us? Is nature only acceptable while it gives us pleasure? I live in a marina on reclaimed land. It’s beautiful but entirely
- [Are we in control?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/are-we-in-control/) - “Should we risk loss of control of our civilization?” This question was posed in the open letter from the Future of Life Institute, an NGO, signed last month by tech leaders including Elon Musk. It was a letter calling for a six-month pause on AI development due to concerns about the speedy advance of the technology. What
- [<strong>Proximity bias</strong>](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/proximity-bias/) - The Great Lurch Forward into hybrid working reality has brought with it a whole host of new words and phrases to learn. One of the most interesting is ‘proximity bias’. This is the notion that managers will reward those workers closest to them. In other words, the ones that show up in the office most
- [<strong>Us versus AI</strong>](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/us-versus-ai/) - Artificial Intelligence is a popular topic. You are either excited about its possibilities, fear its consequences, or a bit of both. Copywriters get particularly jumpy. The new ChatGPT chatbot launched on 30 November 2022 by OpenAI (founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others and funded by Microsoft) is the latest impressive reality of AI.
- [My money is your money](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/my-money-is-your-money/) - The problem with direct democracy is it doesn’t work very well. Big political questions, which are usually big economic questions, are hard to understand. Who really gets economics? Anyone? So, when asked if you want the EU to stop stealing your money, what do people say? “Stop stealing my money!” When asked if you would
- [Why Royals Work](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-royals-work/) - Everyone loved Queen Elizabeth II. ‘No one had a bad word to say about her’ is the defining phrase of the moment. Her popularity and success is usually ascribed to who she was, rather than what she was. But is that really so? Just an ordinary Queen Royalty is generally regarded as anathema to the
- [Men and boats](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/men-and-boats/) - Sailing big yachts around the marinas of the world is almost exclusively the preserve of couples of a certain age. And captaining that yacht is – according to my eagle-eyed research – entirely the preserve of the man. It’s the end of another yachting season where I live in Malmö’s Dockan marina. That means a
- [Walter Close and the Amalthea](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/walter-close-and-the-amalthea/) - In a dock close to my home in the Western Harbour of Malmö, Sweden, a tiny, easily missed plaque commemorates a terrorist attack. Despite what you might think, this isn’t a tale of either ethnic minorities or white supremacists. On the night of 12 July 1908, a ship was blown up in Malmö harbour. The
- [History repeating in Russia and Ukraine](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/history-repeating-in-russia-and-ukraine/) - On the day that Russia invaded Ukraine, I was halfway through In Memory of Memory by the Russian Jewish author Maria Stepanova. I was reading the letters that her relative Lyodik Gimmelfarb, a 19-year-old at the Siege of Leningrad, sent to his mother. They were matter-of-fact and uncomplaining. Shortly after his 20th birthday, he was
- [How to tell the baddies](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/how-to-tell-the-baddies/) - While watching The Lion King with my young son, he asked, “What’s that pink thing across Scar’s eye, Dad?” Well, it’s a scar, of course. Just the same as the scar on Count Rochefort’s face in the remake of the immortal Dogtanian. Why do they have scars? ‘Cos they’re baddies, of course. And then kids’
- [Saying goodbye to January](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/saying-goodbye-to-january/) - “Bye, then. Yeah, see you soon. Yeah, yeah, it’s been, it’s been a… It’s been good. You know, we really appreciate you making the effort to come again. Yeah, it means a lot. No. No, it’s not an easy time of year. Yeah. Yeah, thanks again. You take it easy now. Yeah, don’t worry. We’ll
- [You cannot be serious](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/you-cannot-be-serious/) - This week on planet earth: Australia deports a tennis champion and a Tory prime minister teeters on the edge of resignation over an undisclosed party. Let me guess... The tennis champ smashed his entire racket collection to pieces while effing and blinding at the umpire until, in a fit of pique, he turned his white-flannelled
- [Slow wit](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/slow-wit/) - One of the unsung boons of the fast-forward into remote working has been the rise in slow wit, or the ability to be funny at a more leisurely pace. If, like me, you’re one of those people who is really, really funny in their own head, this new way of working is a godsend. All
- [Liked or unliked](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/liked-or-unliked/) - I wonder what the people who are not liked think? You might think you already know. You might say it’s easy to spot people who are not liked. Donald Trump? Hillary Clinton? Boris Johnson? Greta Thunberg? But of course, everybody we have ever heard of is liked by some group of people. That’s why we
- [I’m all about pine](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/im-all-about-pine/) - Pine is a tree for all the senses. I’ve had a lot of favourites in my time – oak, plum, apple, silver birch – but recently I’ve begun to appreciate just how great pine is. That’s got a lot to do with living in lowland, sandy, flinty-soiled Sweden where pines line the back of every
- [What makes cities so comfortable?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/what-makes-cities-so-comfortable/) - The urban condition – that in-built terror of small town life that makes city folk twitch when they try a new life in the country – is sometimes thought of as a new disease. Not so. Listening to Anton Chekhov’s 1900 play Three Sisters, all about three sisters who once lived in Moscow and are now
- [The office is a luxury now](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-office-is-a-luxury-now/) - The reality of the post-COVID world is that going to the office has become a luxury you do when you’ve got time on your hands. When deadlines loom, going to the office to chat to people, have a social lunch, spend time away from the family, goes out the window. On those days you stay
- [Afghanistan then and now](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/afghanistan-then-and-now/) - Just as the Taliban swept into Kabul, I was coming to the end of Eric Newby’s famous 1956 account of his hiking trip to Afghanistan, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. I’d been avoiding news media for a month previous, preferring old books, and was unaware of recent developments. It made the end of the
- [Tailenders make cricket great](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/tailenders-make-cricket-great/) - What other sport can you see played – at the most elite levels – by people who are basically not very good at it (puns aside)? This is the beauty of cricket. A lot of people claim to not understand cricket. The statement above will perhaps convince them it’s not worth trying to. After all,
- [Sweden’s alcohol security system](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/swedens-alcohol-security-system/) - The most secure place in any Swedish city? The prison? No. A bank? No (there is no actual money in Swedish banks anymore – that’s another story). The town hall? No way. This is Sweden. All doors are open. Except, that is, the door of the Systembolaget. And it’s not just the door. The Systembolaget
- [Finding your Irish roots](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/finding-your-irish-roots/) - I’m pretty sure my great-grandparents on my mother’s side were Irish. Their surname was Tandy (ironically, unusually close to my own paternal surname). But it’s hard to know for sure. It’s amazing how many people have been digging up their Irish connections over the past year, in order quite understandably to acquire the Irish passport
- [Do all apricots taste as sweet?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/do-all-apricots-taste-as-sweet/) - Uzbek apricots cost a fortune from my local supermarket. They are the only Uzbek apricots I’ve ever eaten. Almost every apricot you ever bite into will be from Turkey. Why? Because Turkey has, by and large, monopolised the global export of apricots. And because it has, an Uzbek apricot will cost ya. Not because an
- [The Ninjago Pandemic](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-ninjago-pandemic/) - Last week, I finally saw compelling evidence of a highly infectious obsession among our children. I was in a pine forest in rural Sweden, among deer, wood anemones and goldfinches, when I spied a small boy with a Ninjago baseball cap on his head. My son will be six this month. He wants a very
- [The devil wears Primark](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-devil-wears-primark/) - Apparently, there are two types of buyer: sweatshop-conscious, eco-conscious (and rich) people who buy expensive, durable, long-lasting clothes, and evil people who go to Primark and get a fresh pair of joggers every Saturday. And then there’s me. I have an enviable wardrobe of fast fashion with all the design cues of… not this season,
- [The day the waxwing came](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-day-the-waxwing-came/) - The icy North Wind blew us a mysterious guest this January. It arrived on our balcony unseen, caught us aware, touched our hearts, and left a poo. I looked up, and there it was, sitting plump and still, staring in through the kitchen window. Soft, fluffy brindle feathers, darker wings with flashes of red, white
- [Mwah! One kiss or two?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/mwah-one-kiss-or-two/) - In England, when I grew up, kissing or not kissing women on the cheek was a class issue. Lots of people think the English don’t do the kiss on the cheek. Not true. The posher you are, the more kissing there is. It's so French and sophisticated, see? Among my mates, it was simple: no
- [In praise of air travel](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/in-praise-of-air-travel/) - Would you consider a one- or two-stop flight from London to India? Or would you click the ‘direct flights only’ button every time? How about 21 stops, plus a rail transfer between Basle and Genoa? I’d bet no one would consider such an option today, and yet that’s the trip Lord Beaverbrook stood Robert Byron
- [Trump: the damning verdict](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/trump-the-damning-verdict/) - The media (that I read) has tried to restrain itself in the fallout of the US election. It’s attempted to remain unbiased. It’s not Fox News, after all. It has standards to uphold. But despite itself, it still let the truth about Donald Trump’s inhumanity out of the bag. No pets shocker! Now I am
- [Get off my land](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/get-off-my-land/) - I love Rupert the Bear. There, I’ve put it out there. Anyway, I was reading my son one of the ancient Rupert the Bear Annuals the other day – those dusty old Daily Express hardbacks full of Rupert stories from the 1930s onwards, when a picture stopped me in my tracks. Obviously, a lot about
- [Would you like sugar with that?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/would-you-like-sugar-with-that/) - Swedes love sugar. Seriously, they’re sugar monsters. I know what you’re thinking: who isn’t? But where other nations mix the sweet stuff with other vices – be they fags, booze or deep-fried snacks – Swedes just stick to the sugar. Example 1: fika. It’s a cute name for extremely regular coffee breaks at which you
- [I can explain everything](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/i-can-explain-everything/) - This week, I came across the term ‘mansplaining’ – a great word for that tendency of men to explain things to women, including what women think. An article in Prospect magazine cited Rebecca Solnit as having popularised the term in a 2008 essay about a man she met at a party in Aspen who explained
- [Let's all move to the Med](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/lets-all-move-to-the-med/) - When pandemics and waning prosperity finally loosen the Northern European grip on travel, will we look back on our years in the sun and wonder why we didn’t colonise the Mediterranean more thoroughly? The most permanent migration has been made by the middling sort. That is because, for the truly affluent, the Damp North was
- [The amateur sportsman](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-amateur-sportsman/) - Des Lynam, John Motson, Brian ‘Johnners’ Johnston, Henry Blofeld... Illustrious names of football and cricket, the two great English sports, and yet they all have a singular thing in common – they were broadcasters first and foremost, and essentially amateur enthusiasts of the game. So what? I’ve always wondered why I love these personalities so
- [I operate a just-in-time supply chain](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/i-operate-a-just-in-time-supply-chain/) - It’s called my ‘supermarket-to-kitchen run’. But I hadn’t realised - until I read Dan Hancox’s article in the June issue of Prospect magazine - just how recent and unusual my lifestyle is. Don’t panic, Mr Mainwaring! We’ve all heard the tales of rationing, and how it lasted into the mid-50s for Britons. But it always felt very
- [Caught with my tech down](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/caught-with-my-tech-down/) - For my friends and I – being English – the most exciting thing about Malmö, Sweden is the kallbadhus – a bathhouse on stilts over the sea where it’s against the law not to be nude. The idea that a public space is frequented in the buff – as per regulations – by ordinary Swedes without a
- [The wrong part of town](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-wrong-part-of-town/) - A week before the death of George Floyd, I re-watched two classic 80s American comedies – National Lampoon’s Vacation and Coming to America. Two scenes struck me even then. In the first, Chevy Chase’s Clark W. Griswold plays it cool after driving the family into an African-American city neighbourhood, and nonchalantly asks someone for directions
- [If statues could speak…](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/if-statues-could-speak/) - In early October 2013, I visited Kiev. Several times, I passed a statue near the capital’s main square, the Maydan. On it was written ленин. Even my limited knowledge of the Cyrillic alphabet told me this was a statue of the revolutionary leader himself, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. It struck me as odd that this likeness should
- [Ten albums that shook my world](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/ten-albums-that-shook-my-world/) - My friend Ruth Benton asked me to offer up 10 albums that had helped to form my taste in music. It’s one of those pass-it-on Facebook challenges, but this one really does act as an interesting glimpse into your past. Call it online therapy. No explanation was required on Facebook, but if you’d like to
- [Someone tell me what to do](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/someone-tell-me-what-to-do/) - The world already had ‘strong leader syndrome’. And now this… Behind all the shock at the sudden curtailment of freedoms (in countries where they existed), how many of us are secretly relaxing into it? A few years back, I read Witold Szablowski’s book Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny. Its basic
- [Are you social distancing?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/are-you-social-distancing/) - This is an emergency. Where is the urgency, Sweden? Well, the same accusation was being flung at the UK until this week, but let’s look a little more closely at the facts. Slowing the curve So, the scientific evidence is clear. During epidemics you get ‘the surge’, and the only way to avoid an uncontainable
- [You’re lucky to be alive](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/youre-lucky-to-be-alive/) - If you’re conscious, you’re lucky. Seriously. Almost all the people who have ever lived aren’t alive right now. But you are (‘cos you’re reading this). Lucky you. I was getting off the commuter train this week and it struck me: Bugger me, I thought, I’m actually alive at the moment. For ages I wasn’t, for
- [Pardon my Swedish!](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/pardon-my-swedish/) - Whenever I heard my grandmother – who was from the North of England – say something was ‘dear’ (i.e. expensive), I assumed nothing could be more English than this classic colloquial word. Then I was on Blocket – a Swedish eBay – and it had a little indicator on each sale item, telling you if
- [What’s your storm name?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/whats-your-storm-name/) - Mine’s Storm Caleb. That’s if the rule is Storm followed by the name of your first pet. Otherwise it’s Storm Eileen. That’s if the rule is Storm followed by the name of your maternal grandmother. But enough of this frivolity… I live in windy city. Malmö, on the southern tip of Sweden, is so windy
- [If life gives you cucumbers…](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/if-life-gives-you-cucumbers/) - …write a blog about cucumbers. Sometimes life descends into pure farce. On a wet January evening in a shopping mall on the outskirts of Malmö. Or anywhere. It goes from the mundane to slapstick silly. So I was in my local supermarket. I had my large-volume backpack on (I cycle my groceries home) and I
- [Same place, different century](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/same-place-different-century/) - Stuck for a good read? Try two books about the same place from writers who were there a century apart. I’ve done it twice now, by chance. I recommend it. First, I read Siberian Journey: Down the Amur to the Pacific, 1856-1857 by Perry McDonough Collins, an incredible account of his trip as the first
- [Meet beauties online now](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/meet-beauties-online-now/) - I know a couple who are from wildly different places in different hemispheres. How did they meet? On the internet, of course. If you’re old enough, the idea of meeting romantic partners online still has a frisson of mixed emotions. It feels a little risqué, but also a little taboo. In my formative years, we
- [I saw a hare... where?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/i-saw-a-hare-where/) - “Here hare here” So says the note found by Uncle Monty on the door of his Cumbrian cottage in the classic 1980s film Withnail & I. But the hare – that larger cousin of the common rabbit that few of us are very sure about – is not something you see here, there or anywhere.
- [Staying silent on Brexit](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/staying-silent-on-brexit/) - “In the Nazi era they flew the red swastika flag – but only when it became too dangerous not to.” This is a quote from Rowan Rheingans – interviewed in Songlines about her excellent debut solo album The Lines We Draw Together (see my Top of the World review of the album in My Latest
- [Being nude isn’t rude](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/being-nude-isnt-rude/) - I went to the kallbadhus the other day. It’s a Swedish thing. A municipal sauna and sea bathing spot at the end of a jetty. They are dotted along Malmö beachfront. A sign in the saunas advises the visitor that swimwear is not allowed. Sharp intake of breath They say nothing helps you see your
- [You live in the right place, right?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/you-live-in-the-right-place-right/) - France has the best wine in the world. Sweden has the best childcare in the world. Britain has the best television in the world. Brazil has the best football in the world. We love to tell ourselves stories. I’ve been living in a new country now for two months, and it makes you realise just
- [How’s your eco-guilt?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/hows-your-eco-guilt/) - Are you doing your bit? Did you put the right plastic in the recycling bin? Was anyone watching? This isn’t an eco post You’ll find plenty of eco-outrage on Facebook. This post isn’t about that. It’s about the effects of this reality on us. It’s about stress – that other elephant in the room. Just
- [Hot dogs, with added Swedishness](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/hot-dogs-with-added-swedishness/) - In Sweden, a hot dog is not simply a hot dog. It must have mustard, ketchup, gurkajonäs (chopped pickles and mayo), prawn mayo, hell, even mashed potato. In short, it has cultural legitimacy. In the UK, eating a hot dog is imbued with no cultural significance whatsoever. It’s cheap processed meat, pure and simple. It
- [Are nomads bad?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/are-nomads-bad/) - I’ve been listening a lot to Bruce Springsteen’s new album, Western Stars. I love it. It’s one of his strongest records for a long time, in my opinion. The songwriting is so condensed and focused. Some folks are inspired sitting by the fire, slippers tucked under the bedBut when I go to sleep I can’t
- [Give something away today](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/give-something-away-today/) - I went looking for my son’s lost spade today in the sandpits of Malmö. I found it in the same pit where we found his Spiderman cap the other day. Two kids were playing nearby and wondered who this man was stealing their digging toy. In most of the sandpits in Malmö you’ll find buckets
- [Think you’ve got a good memory?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/think-youve-got-a-good-memory/) - Our memory isn’t as good as we like to think it is. I’m not talking about the dementia epidemic. I mean collective memory. Societies are built on the stuff. What we remember makes us who we are. But I have a theory. It’s this: our collective memory is only ever 4 generations old. Even the
- [Who doesn’t love a sauna?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/who-doesnt-love-a-sauna/) - I love saunas. I can remember when I first discovered the wood-fired version on a Swedish archipelago. The health-giving properties are obvious. It transforms your skin. You feel great – especially after the cold plunge. But to the Anglo mind, it has always been an exotic, foreign kind of experience. For some reason, the sauna
- [I’m Gay Therefore I Am… Creative](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/im-gay-therefore-i-am-creative/) - Face it. Being gay makes you more creative*. The straight world just doesn’t always like to admit it. On BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time, an academic said how the family of Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca was silent on the subject of his sexuality until well into the 80s, after the fall of the
- [Is it news?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/is-it-news/) - When is something newsworthy? The definition has broadened as the media has. Once upon a time, newsreaders would announce that ‘there is no news today’. Imagine. Unthinkable. Two stories this week made me wonder. They were both small tragedies: the deaths of two people in mundane circumstances – one doing their job, another walking down a
- [A dad in the playground](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/a-dad-in-the-playground/) - I spent the recent Father’s Day in a pub garden playing with my kid. A girl came up to me and enthusiastically tried to get me to join in her game. She grabbed hold of my hand and tried to lead me off round the playground. Paedo paranoia alert I flinched. I pulled my hand
- [What is Hong Kong?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/what-is-hong-kong/) - Hong Kong was returned to China by Britain in 1997. Now it’s Chinese. Looking from the UK, that’s pretty much how things appear. It’s only as you get closer that you find it’s not so simple as that. Sort of sovereign In light of the current protests against extraditing Hong Kongers to Mainland China, I
- [Love your opposite](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/love-your-opposite/) - Watching people in airports is a great pastime. During a session in Copenhagen this week, I noted, not for the first time, how sibling-like many couples are. They say opposites attract, but it’s amazing how often we choose a mirror image of ourselves. We choose self-love, in effect. My polar opposite on Earth Which made
- [If we go local do we end up divided?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/if-we-go-local-do-we-end-up-divided/) - If we all go local, will the walls go up? It’s a paradox I mused on this week when I visited Hay Festival to see the incredible Spell Songs – a musical reimagining of Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris’ The Lost Words – a book that’s spawning its own eco-activist movement. Extinction rebellion! Everything right now happens
- [Are you a smartphone addict?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/are-you-a-smartphone-addict/) - Our household is having the zeitgeist conversation of the moment: how to manage smartphone addiction. Then I got a lesson as if sent from heaven. My phone simply went missing. Was it a sign? Turns out it was, in a way. iPhone found in pit I don’t know why I even looked, but as I
- [Long hair spells danger](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/long-hair-spells-danger/) - Why do we cut boys’ hair? Because girls have long hair and boys have short hair, that’s why. But why do we do it? That human hair grows is natural. It just happens. So why the scissors? Is baldness to blame? As Canned Heat observed in 1968: The police in Denver, they don’t want none
- [Imagine your vote counted](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/imagine-your-vote-counted/) - I voted last week. Local elections. Just local people with local issues. Nothing exciting for the outside world. But something unexpected and previously unknown happened… The candidate I voted for won. Guess what, my vote counts My candidate didn’t just win – she won by a landslide. In that moment, it dawned on me. All
- [The bums lost, Lebowski](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-bums-lost-lebowski/) - In mid-April, Jack Ma – founder of Alibaba – praised the 996 system. 996 means working 9am till 9pm, 6 days a week. In Shenzhen, China’s tech boomtown near Hong Kong and Alibaba’s home, that’s normal. Workin’ 996... I was in Shenzhen in January. I spoke to a successful innovator in the tech industry. Like
- [Does shandy have an age limit?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/does-shandy-have-an-age-limit/) - Reading Will Self’s novella on Brexit in The New European last week, I read the following: “The prime minister’s holed up in Chequers, on the Chiltern fringe. I used to walk out that way, towards Wendover Hill, with my unpatriotic, but deeply beery father, back in the flannel-and-Gannex sixties, when you knew where you stood:
- [Fancy a dinner share?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/fancy-a-dinner-share/) - A lot of things are becoming shared these days – cars, energy, childcare – yet one of the most everyday and immediate of our needs continues to be atomised: our food. Imagine a community hub that provided a square meal every evening, for everyone to enjoy… Surely that’s called a restaurant? No, not a restaurant.
- [Why is race so black and white?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-is-race-so-black-and-white/) - Why is Barack Obama more black than white? The question of race and the ownership of different racial and therefore cultural spaces is a vexed one. As someone most people would look at and identify as ‘white’, I feel the exclusivity of the discourse. The American banjo player and roots singer Rhiannon Giddens – talking
- [What makes you think you’re so special?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/what-makes-you-think-youre-so-special/) - Exceptionalism is a concept often attached to entire nations or societies. The idea that a nation or people are the exception is attractive. ‘We are God’s chosen ones’ is a sentiment found across national, ethnic, religious and other groups. But what about little ol’ me? Think what you will of collective exceptionalism, but I have
- [Brexit and morality](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/brexit-and-morality/) - ‘Democracy’ and ‘the right thing to do’: we’ve heard a lot about both from British Prime Minister Theresa May over the past few years. Everyone claims the moral high ground on the issue of Brexit. But this was never about democracy. It was always a power struggle: one that began inside the British Conservative Party
- [Ever wanted to be a bear?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/ever-wanted-to-be-a-bear/) - Last month, I met a woman in Finland who teaches what she terms “evolution training”. Since I love moving outdoors – and particularly love swinging from trees – I immediately wanted to know more. She told me. Her name is Pauliina Toivanen. She is not only a natural movement trainer, but also a serious snowboarder,
- [Christianity for export](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/christianity-for-export/) - Christianity is an imported religion to anyone who’s not from the Middle East. This may be a historical fact, yet it’s often overlooked. I am reminded of it by V. S. Naipaul’s reflections on “the faith of the heathen convert” in his 1961 travelogue of the West Indies, The Middle Passage. “Indian girls not good.”
- [Make Britain Great Again?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/make-britain-great-again/) - I’ve walked through Heathrow Airport in London a few times lately, and it’s getting more embarrassing by the day. As Brexit looms, the airport’s advertising campaign welcoming the world to Great Britain feels increasingly desperate. The life-size posters of Beefeaters, bus drivers and nurses – suitably multi-ethnic, naturally – with their arms open wide, wanting
- [Boys don’t like flowers](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/boys-dont-like-flowers/) - My son says to me: “Dads and boys don’t like flowers.” We’re standing in a carpet of crocuses and snowdrops in our back garden – the first flowers of spring. He’d heard it from a boy at nursery. I say, “I like flowers.” He says, “I do, too.” It’s a fleeting victory. I will lose
- [Blackadder goes Brexit](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/blackadder-goes-brexit/) - In moments of national self-implosion, we must cling fast to those wisest and most foundational of texts. At these moments we need the guidance of our national bards, and for me, nothing gets close to Blackadder. In terms of national self-implosion, nothing in my lifetime has got close to Brexit, either. The breathtaking chaos, tinge
- [The Baltic cure for fear](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-baltic-cure-for-fear/) - Last night, I had a Baltic cure for fear. It was a hole broken in the ice of Helsinki harbour in Finland. The water was 0.6C – as cold as water can get without turning to ice – with mini icebergs floating in it. I went in. Twice. Why twice? The obvious question is what on
- [How to spend a long haul flight](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/how-to-spend-a-long-haul-flight/) - I find the thought of long haul flights intimidating. The prospect of 13 hours of reading time is mammoth even for me. I’ve no interest in the films or in sleeping, so it’s all about the plane meals and the reading. Read about somewhere you fly over Before my flight from China to the UK,
- [When Baldrick met a QR code in China](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/when-baldrick-met-a-qr-code-in-china/) - Unbeknownst to me (I don’t get out much and the only news item I have seen since 2016 is Brexit), the Chinese have quietly departed for the future. I went there last week. I wasn’t expecting to time travel, so it was a shock. The quiet QR revolution QR codes now rule. You know, the
- [Is it your right to migrate?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/is-it-your-right-to-migrate/) - Is migration a moral right? Not for birds or whales, but for people. It’s a given that non-humans can migrate, but can people? The knee-jerk response is usually two-fold: Are we talking about rich, educated people or poor, uneducated ones?I am a liberal or a conservative? Imagine you were this kind of migrant… You’re born
- [Lost and Found Words](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/lost-and-found-words/) - This Christmas, I read my 3-year-old son The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris — a ‘spell book’ of poems and illustrations with the neat hook of celebrating nature words that have vanished from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in recent years. Unprompted, he simply started naming the birds whose names he didn’t know. Here’s the result…
- [Uncivilising](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/uncivilising/) - A clash of civilisations is indeed underway, but I’m not talking about Islam versus the West. I’m talking about a clash between civilisation as we have come to understand it, and its unraveling in pursuit of something better. The revolution won’t be televised This clash is between people who instinctively want things to stay the
- [Being Middle Class Man](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/being-middle-class-man/) - I love Grayson Perry. Who doesn’t? All but the most unsalvageably entrenched blokey blokes must love him for everything he has done to open debate about gender – particularly being a man – and identity. But how much of what Grayson has done – has been able to do – is rooted in his working
- [Swedes are Brits with good branding](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/swedes-are-brits-with-good-branding/) - The Swedes have branding sown up. It’s like they ingest it from birth. Sweden just rings so true as an idea for the rest of the world. Happy, blonde people living fairly with each other and in harmony with nature – and no matter what the weather, doing everything well. What’s so Swedish about a
- [Planet Earth in one village](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/planet-earth-in-one-village/) - “If we could shrink the Earth to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, there would be: - 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 8 Africans and 14 from North and South America. - 52 would be female and 48 male. - 70 would be non-Christian and 30 Christian.
- [Oh, there’s a war in Yemen](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/oh-theres-a-war-in-yemen/) - It took the death of one man – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi – to bring international pressure to bear on the Saudi-led coalition in the Yemen conflict. Given UN statistics suggesting the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with up to 14 million at risk of starvation, and a steady death toll, it’s ironic that one death
- [Rural voters rule ok](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/rural-voters-rule-ok/) - Here's the received wisdom: rural voters are the neglected, the ignored, the forgotten — but in Western democracies, they are fast becoming the kingmakers. How did this happen? It seems counterintuitive. Power resides at the centre. Kings, queens, presidents and press barons — they are urban, as are most people in post-industrial states. Yet, even
- [What is a Nazi war crime?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/what-is-a-nazi-war-crime/) - Below are two little stories within the vast panoply of Nazi war crimes from the Second World War that I wanted to share. Nothing arouses our emotion like the Nazis, and the question of who was good and bad, who was a perpetrator and who a victim. Joachim Lieven The first is from the late
- [A walk in the cemetery](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/a-walk-in-the-cemetery/) - I took a walk in the cemetery. The air was so clear that it made life undeniable. I stood on an asphalt path, looked at my shoes, inside which were my feet. I examined my legs and my torso. I was alive in a sea of dead. A massacre. Those who hadn’t made it strewn
- [Why does America love a jail?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-does-america-love-a-jail/) - ‘Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up!’ Remember the Trump rally chant? Well, Hillary Clinton isn’t the only American they want in jail. Incarceration is a top US pastime. Why? STAT ALERT The figures are genuinely amazing. 2.3 million people – the equivalent of the entire population of Botswana. America’s prison population is larger
- [10 reasons to hug a Riace migrant](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/10-reasons-to-hug-a-riace-migrant/) - If you haven’t read this story about the Italian government’s latest “war on the immigration business”, it’s got the full tragi-comedic spectrum. 1 People for terra nullius [just baiting ya, Matteo. But seriously, Italy has a major shortfall in human beings, and the ones it has got aren't living in places like Riace] 2 Southern Italy is
- [Who’s to blame for my troubles?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/whos-to-blame-for-my-troubles/) - Responsibility in an indifferent universe: it’s been a cause of anguish ever since we became conscious beings. I get that. It’s virtually the reason religion exists. But that recurring image of the wailing mother in a war zone – the one newsreels show on repeat – is one we all feel sorrow for. Oh course we
- [You're the only person reading this](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/youre-the-only-person-reading-this/) - The sun breaks through the leaves. They are full on the trees, creating dappled shapes that shift and heave in the breeze. Small purple-headed thistles sway by the path, but each time I move back under the canopy, the chill in the air prickles my skin. The sun is shining, but it has no strength
- [You are how you sit](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/you-are-how-you-sit/) - Just how culturally conditioned are we to sit in a certain way? Western inventions – from the chair and the stool to the sofa and the car seat – have encouraged a certain posture. This posture is reinforced by the sense that it is a civilised position. What if we’re wrong? New school movement practitioners like
- [Why Putin is Playing Nice](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-putin-is-playing-nice/) - The Syrian Civil War. Pretty clear-cut, right? A brutal dictatorship propped up by Putin’s Russia. Grinding to a conclusion. Nothing to see here. September 17. Two events: a deal between President Putin of Russia and President Erdogan of Turkey to halt the offensive on the final rebel stronghold of Idlib and the downing of a
- [The new school way to work](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-new-school-way-to-work/) - This is outlandish. In fact, it’s so crazy you shouldn’t even countenance it. But I’m gonna say it anyway: kids love to help. Kids love to do. Kids love to be part of something bigger, more exciting, more grown up. Kids are really fast learners—faster than adults. Victorian Values 2.0 What if we turned the
- [Why do we go on holiday?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-do-we-go-on-holiday/) - Everyone loves a holiday, right? Sun, sea, sand, surf… There is a brilliant moment in The Mystic Masseur, the debut novel of recently departed Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul. The main protagonist, Ganesh, is bettering himself in rural 1940s Trinidad, and his long suffering wife Leela begins to think out loud to her female acquaintances
- [Selling the USA everyday](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/selling-the-usa-everyday/) - This is a very quick, hit-and-run random cross-section of clothes for sale on one floor of a major high street fashion retailer. Notice the theme? This was a kids’ department, so even in the 0-24 months section, we are already feeding our kids with a 100%—yes, 100%—visual diet of Team USA. Why? Repeat until it’s
- [Britain isn’t what it used to be](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/britain-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/) - A few weeks ago, something extraordinary began happening on my street — a standard issue redbrick Victorian terraced street in a provincial English town. Children started playing among the crowded parked cars. Where there had been only silence interrupted by the occasional revved engine, suddenly there were children’s voices. But they weren’t speaking English. The
- [Where is the USA on a map?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/where-is-the-usa-on-a-map/) - Is there anything as immutable as the map of the USA in today’s political geography? Its shape is like a branding iron on the surface of North America — an indelible shape. Yet the accidents of history that brought it about — like all states — was revealed to me on a road trip around
- [What would a soft city feel like?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/what-would-a-soft-city-feel-like/) - What if soft were good? It is if we are talking about pillows or grass, but what if we’re talking about a soft city? What if we’re talking about the politicians who run them? Do they like to be seen as soft? Do we like our cities soft? Well, in fact we do — in
- [The Silk Road is a great brand](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-silk-road-is-a-great-brand/) - It’s amazing what marketing can do for your image. The world has been full of trading routes since the earliest human settlements. Trade, and with it rivalry, diplomacy and power politics, have been foundations of human interaction everywhere, and yet one trade route rises in our imagination above all others: The Silk Road. Conjuring an
- [Stockholm's integration problem](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/stockholms-integration-problem/) - I love Stockholm. I’ve lived there, worked there and been charmed since my first visit by a lifestyle that seemed to me the world’s best-kept secret. Why, oh why, did no one ever tell me about this place? We always see the weaknesses in the things we love. Places we’ve never been can be mocked
- [Where we build our cities](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/where-we-build-our-cities/) - This week, the 20th anniversary of the city of Astana — the new capital of Kazakhstan — coincided with me reading the opening chapters of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, about his journey on foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul in the 1930s. As he ascended the Rhine, I was struck by
- [6 Greats from the Great Plains](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/6-greats-from-the-great-plains/) - 1 Plainsong Trilogy (Plainsong, Eventide, Benediction) by Kent Haruf On completing this beautifully sparse, stripped bare trilogy set in the imagined flatlands town of Holt, Colorado, I was struck by how the Great Plains have been something of a mesmerizing muse for me — much like the Siberian steppe in Russian literature. So, alongside this account of
- [Why we like camping](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-we-like-camping/) - I went camping last weekend. We got chatting, round the proverbial campfire, about why we — the British, but north Europeans in general — seem to be drawn to taking ourselves away from home for a few nights to sit in a field somewhere and do everything we’d do at home, only with less light,
- [Talking to a three-year-old](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/talking-to-a-three-year-old/) - We’re going to the pub. Which pub? The Britannia. No, but which pub, Daddy? I just said, the Britannia. We are going to drink some lovely orange juice. Which orange juice? Which orange juice? Which orange juice are we going to drink? The orange juice in the Britannia. But men drink beer. Yes, men drink
- [Why do we go to school?](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/why-do-we-go-to-school/) - Like most people of peasant stock, I regard education as an incredible privilege — one my forebears never had. But what did I actually get? Often (not always, but often) it was bored or uninterested peers facing bored or frustrated teachers moving us towards tests with set info. For most people I knew, the last
- [Five-fer](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/five-fer/) - I completed a 10-mile journey by canoe yesterday (with my companion, Jon) from the village of Hoarwithy in Herefordshire to the town of Ross-on-Wye. It is a free-flowing wild river — undammed and as a result has one of the largest fluctuations in depth of any river in the country. Yesterday, however, it was
- [The Beginner’s Guide to the Turkish Elections](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-beginners-guide-to-the-turkish-elections/) - When? June 24. Again? Yes, following general elections in 2011, June and November 2015, and a referendum only 12 months ago. This is because incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — a man we hear a lot about — called elections some 17 months early. Why? Many suggestions: fractured opposition, the nose-diving economy, riding the nationalist war
- [Unrestricted avian migration](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/unrestricted-avian-migration/) - In my son's new book, Robins, Wrens and other British Birds, it reads: "In springtime, many of the birds you see will have come from far away. Each year, some birds, like swifts, make an amazing journey to find food and nesting places. This is called 'migration'." The word struck me at once. This was
- [The Road to Oxiana](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/the-road-to-oxiana/) - Robert Byron's The Road to Oxiana is fascinating as a travelogue through 1930s Iran and Afghanistan, at a time when vehicular roads were in their infancy, ancient practices were in flux and the traveller could cross the path of Russian emigres fleeing across the border from Stalin's Turkestan. It can also be enjoyed for its
- [If Venice is a theme park, it must be the best theme park in the world](https://www.nathanielhandy.com/if-venice-is-a-theme-park-it-must-be-the-best-theme-park-in-the-world/) - Forget Disneyland. Venice really is the ultimate kids’ destination. I arrived in Venice on the weekend that the city’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, had planned to put into action his new turnstiles, restricting access to certain main thoroughfares in order to deal with the crush of visitors in the early May weekend that is a bank

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