backstory
Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Archive
About
New
Top
Discussion
Grandad's Cash
and answers to last week's quiz
Kevin Rushby
Mar 18
4
Share this post
Grandad's Cash
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Jerusalem
and the answers to last week's quiz
Kevin Rushby
Mar 11
5
2
Share this post
Jerusalem
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
When Cash Lets You Down
(and a quiz)
Kevin Rushby
Mar 4
4
1
Share this post
When Cash Lets You Down
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
February 2023
Walking Through Vermeer
The big European art show of the year is undoubtedly Vermeer at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum (runs until June 4) - best combined with Vermeer's Delft at the…
Kevin Rushby
Feb 25
6
1
Share this post
Walking Through Vermeer
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Getting Started
The power of teachers, good and bad
Kevin Rushby
Feb 18
7
5
Share this post
Getting Started
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Biodiversity?
UK government approves bee-killing pesticide
Kevin Rushby
Feb 4
4
3
Share this post
Biodiversity?
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
January 2023
Unlucky
In Sudan during the 1980s there was a comment you used to hear a lot whenever bad news arrived. “When God made the Sudan,” someone would say, “He…
Kevin Rushby
Jan 21
5
Share this post
Unlucky
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Sacred Rivers
Friday 13 January. Indian officials announce the start of the world’s longest river cruise, from Varanasi to Assam via Kolkata. Environmentalists have…
Kevin Rushby
Jan 14
9
4
Share this post
Sacred Rivers
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
November 2022
The Divine Tights of Kings
Some tortures devised by humans are fiendishly clever. I don’t mean the type you can find in the Museo de la Tortura in Toledo. That institution holds…
Kevin Rushby
Nov 19, 2022
6
2
Share this post
The Divine Tights of Kings
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member
How is it that human groups frequently divide into two competing factions, neither of which ever quite manages to achieve full destruction of the other…
Kevin Rushby
Nov 12, 2022
5
3
Share this post
I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
Dead Days of November
In the 1970s in the UK, the best day of my childhood year came on November 5th. Using earnings from my newspaper delivery round I would secretly buy…
Kevin Rushby
Nov 5, 2022
4
5
Share this post
Dead Days of November
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
October 2022
I want to be alone
27 October 2022: The seven largest oil companies in the world have reportedly made over $150 billion in profits so far this year. 25 October: A UN…
Kevin Rushby
Oct 29, 2022
8
1
Share this post
I want to be alone
backstory.substack.com
Copy link
Twitter
Facebook
Email
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts