The Browser - Travel

Imagining Myself In Palestine | Randa Jarrar | Guernica | 14 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:10:54 +0000

American citizen of Palestinian descent flies to Israel, aiming to visit sister in West Bank. On landing in Tel Aviv she faces immigration. Despite best preparations, it doesn't go well. Soon she's sent to the "Arab room"

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Where The Wind Howls | Robert Macfarlane | More Intelligent Life | 09 May 2012

The Browser — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:36:05 +0000

Walking the Mournes in Northern Ireland. "As we approached the cloud line we met two walkers retreating, mad-eyed and wet. 'It’s wild up there!' one of them yelled. A raven swept out of the cloud and was whipped off by the gale"

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The Trouble With Profiling | Bruce Schneier | Sam Harris | 08 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:10:17 +0000

Security expert Schneier replies to Sam Harris's call for targeted profiling of Muslims at airports. "Invasive TSA screening is nothing more than security theatre. It doesn’t make us safer, and it’s not worth the cost"

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Flying Blind Through The Mountains Of Hunan | James Fallows | Atlantic | 08 May 2012

The Browser — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:34:19 +0000

A small plane in China. "When you're in the clouds, it's like driving a car while blindfolded, but worse. In a plane it's simply impossible to tell up from down by your own bodily senses, if you can't see the ground or the horizon"

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London and the Olympics

The Browser — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:23:20 +0000

Image by Jonas in China via Flickr

The Games creep ever closer, though in London you'd hardly know it. Here's a sideways look at the event and its host city

Peter Ackroyd

Iain Sinclair

Mary King

Jumping Through Hoops

My London, And Welcome To It

Kabul. Baghdad. London. Three To Avoid This Summer

Sidestepping Olympics Pitfalls

Big Sporting Events Find New Frontiers

London's Brand Olympics

I Still Cherish And Admire The Olympic Ideal

Not Excited By The Olympics? Then Thank God For The Sponsors

Diary

The Olympics Scam

British Institutions: London Underground

'Oh, London, You Drama Queen'

Christopher Rhoads | WSJ | 17 June 2010

Frequent Fliers Who Flew Too Much | Ken Bensinger | LA Times | 05 May 2012

The Browser — Tue, 08 May 2012 07:00:35 +0000

Desperate for cash in 1981, American Airlines sold first-class unlimited lifetime air tickets for $350,000. A great deal for the buyers, who have been racking up tens of millions of air-miles since. Now AA wants to weasel out

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The Olympics Scam | Iain Sinclair | London Review Of Books | 19 June 2008

The Browser — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:19:09 +0000

London four years before the Olympics, and thoughts of what's being lost. "In this gold-rush land-grab of flexible futures legacy is all important. And the legacy is: Loss, visions injected straight into the eyeballs, lasting shame"

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Tokyo Through The Letterbox | Pachiguy | Spike Japan | 04 May 2012

The Browser — Sun, 06 May 2012 07:06:54 +0000

Rust-porn ramble through Mishima's Tokyo: "Unshaven, unshowered Tokyo, Tokyo with its make-up off last thing at night, a place of battered plastic bottles strapped with green duct tape and nylon string around a lamppost"

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The Rust Belt Of France | John Davidson | Bygone Bureau | 25 April 2012

The Browser — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:04:15 +0000

"My wife and I have been living in France for the past nine months in a city near the Mediterranean coast. But it’s not quite what you think." Welcome to Montpellier, where the worst side of French society is on display

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Window Seat to North Korea

The Browser — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:07:12 +0000

Pyongyang through the window of a bus