If I had a leaky pipe in my house, like most people I’d call a plumber. For mechanical trouble there are mechanics, and electricians are…
David SandersSeptember 11, 2020
As if pressing up against the translucent skin of a parallel dimension, devoid of angles or any definable trait, it bears no hint of its…
David SandersJuly 17, 2020
Uneasy, like Sunday morning I t’s been over two weeks since my last walk home. The streets were fairly empty with just enough mundane activity…
David SandersMarch 30, 2020
As I start reading Steven Pinker’s corrective to modern pessimism “Enlightenment Now”, the feeling is that he has set himself an uphill task to convince…
David SandersJanuary 9, 2020
‘The lady doth protest too much, methinks.’ A go-to Hamlet quote to indicate one is both unimpressed at loud repeated denials of something dodgy and…
David SandersNovember 23, 2019
The high emissions clown car world we are doing our utmost to destroy is looking for a tree to wrap itself around. Unfortunately the last…
David SandersSeptember 22, 2019
One giant leap into credulity I t is the fiftieth anniversary of mankind not going to the Moon. A half century since Neil Armstrong didn’t…
David SandersJuly 23, 2019
A game of chance E xistential risk analyst and philosopher Nick Bostrom posits the idea of an urn containing all potential human inventions and discoveries…
David SandersJuly 6, 2019
Thérèse Blanchard sits eyes closed with her face turned to reveal her profile. Her fingers interlaced rest on her head. She is beautiful, she is…
David SandersMay 19, 2019
In his 2017 book On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder wrote that the fall of communism had led to the myth of an “end of history”. This…
David SandersMarch 17, 2019
Juan Guaidó, the self proclaimed interim president of Venezuela stands smiling in a photograph that is narrow enough in frame to leave the viewer guessing…
David SandersFebruary 17, 2019
As we embark on another trip around the Sun it is the time honoured tradition to make a list of resolutions for the year ahead;…
David SandersJanuary 6, 2019
…just not always an honest one. O ld photographs of familiar places stir up nostalgia. They show a past that could have gone any number…
David SandersDecember 9, 2018
Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman to have ever lived. "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships / And burnt the…
David SandersNovember 28, 2018
Words don't come easy... B ack in the halcyon days of the early 1980s before the internet and social media crashed the party, French Tunisian…
David SandersOctober 22, 2018
From WW2 & the EU on iTunes & YouTube to FU² and #metoo with love. Madrid, 20th September 2018.I may not be U2s most ardent…
David SandersSeptember 23, 2018
She looks up from her phone and raises an eyebrow. "What was that?" Her tone more statement than enquiry. "Nothing" he replies probably thinking better…
David SandersAugust 28, 2018
Turning right out of the market square at the war memorial was familiar enough and the first few hundred meters went smoothly before doubt set…
David SandersAugust 24, 2018
-So you’re saying it’s child abuse to give children a religious education? -Yes, absolutely. There is no such thing as a Jewish, Christian or Muslim…
David SandersAugust 15, 2018
As I hung up I was left with the word inshallah ringing in my ear. How much stock should I put into this uncommitted response…
David SandersAugust 6, 2018
Pick a drink, milk and sugar are optional. Insert a coin, press a couple of buttons and bingo it arrives. It’s a straightforward way of…
David SandersJuly 30, 2018
The revolution has been televised, is being televised and will go on being so in whatever today’s definition of TV is. Filmed on mobile devices,…
David SandersJuly 9, 2018
Fight or flight instincts are a well ingrained human trait and have probably served our species well during our time on this planet. Queuing at…
David SandersJune 10, 2018
Once were warriors T he glasses borrowed from a photograph of Allen Ginsberg were framed by beautifully coiffed hair flowing seamlessly into a hand crafted…
David SandersMay 15, 2018
The meeting place a zebra crossing, the time 8pm. With neither a flower nor a lapel in which to wear it, I would just have…
David SandersApril 29, 2018
With better weather and longer evenings approaching I am loath to spend most workday evenings going straight home, it is repetitive and far from the…
David SandersApril 13, 2018
Listening to the podcast version of Real Time with Bill Maher this morning I was taken aback to learn that no US state has a…
David SandersApril 7, 2018
I winced as he took the stool next to me at the counter rather than one of the many others in the half empty cafeteria.…
David SandersApril 2, 2018
Warhol - el atre mecánico. 1st Feb – 6th May 2018 Caixaforum Madrid. I f Andy Warhol had intended that the public interaction with…
David SandersMarch 23, 2018
Birds of a feather... A nybody wandering around Madrid these past few months might be forgiven for thinking they had just missed a state celebration…
David SandersMarch 21, 2018
My few visits each year to the social security office for the purposes of la alta, signing up and la baja, signing off, have always…
David SandersMarch 16, 2018
He holds the door for me though it makes life harder for both of us and I grunt politely as I feign a smile and…
David SandersMarch 14, 2018
Mid afternoon on a Friday in late February, I headed reluctantly to an interview for a class which although poorly paid, was located conveniently enough…
David SandersMarch 12, 2018
Churchill once said the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. While this may still hold water, it is…
David SandersMarch 12, 2018