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  • The Pain Clinic

    It was snowing, they were late. The cropped, blonde nurse glared at her as her husband fled, keen to escape the clutches of the clinic which radiated an air of military strictness. This was the Pain Clinic. Where everyone is in pain, except – maybe the staff. She knew better than to explain to the…

  • Remembering Nellie

    Remembering Nellie

    Honouring my great-grandmother Nellie Sinclair, nurse.

  • koróni

    koróni

    20 x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas, on loan

  • Lost Place: Beelitz Sanatorium

    Lost Place: Beelitz Sanatorium

    Photo tour in Beelitz sanatorium, lost place.

  • arena

    arena

    Arena complex and Spree in Berlin

  • gesellschaftshaus grünau

    gesellschaftshaus grünau

    Society House in Grünau, Berlin

  • Been there, done that…

    Looking through my old scraps from the eighties before going to the blockade at Büchel, I came across this newspaper cutting of me handing a letter to the duty officer at RAF Cottesmore. Not sure of the date of this action, but I also – digging deeper into my boxes – found a flyer for…

  • On Worms and Firewalls

    In a previous post, I made fun of the latest news about alleged alien intervention, cyberwar and men who stare at goats. But behind the mockery, there is an emerging problem that we need to address: The technological “fix”. The tendency to search for technological solutions to what are often ethical or even moral questions…

  • Aliens, Cyberwar and other curiosities

    At last I feel mitigated in my avid viewing of „The Next Generation“ and „Doctor Who“, for it seems that I am psychologically equipped for the reports of aliens tampering with the nuclear deterrent. I am not in the least phased by this, in fact I welcome our green friends to join “Global Zero” along…

  • The Bigger Picture

    Yesterday I did a press conference on behalf of the Congress organisers on the subject of nuclear disarmament. Christian Schönenberger from the Swiss Foreign Office joined us, as did Rebecca Johnson, Vice-Chair of ICAN. Christian Schönenberger referred not only to the excellent speech by Micheline Calmy-Rey, the Swiss Foreign Minister in the plenary that morning,…