George R Mitchell: Time to leave and summing up
I’d been to this refugee camp in Gaza a couple of days previously, and even inside this very house. Muhammad, one of Rami’s guys, is related to Shadi and his family who live here. And I’d been invited...
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George Mitchell: A holy pilgrimage through Lalish
Fascinated by the lives of others, George R Mitchell gets under the skin of a country, often uncovering the dark corners of culture, politics and people. He now has 25 years of off-grid travel and 85...
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Never a dull moment with George Mitchell: Tirana’s House of Leaves
The Albanian communist regime was one of the cruellest in Europe. It executed around 25,000 of its own people and sent tens of thousands to labour camps. Run for almost 50 years by paranoid dictator...
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: Why elections are worth staying up all night for
Thank you for your feedback on last week’s column on Google. I’m glad to see that some of you have already made the change and switched.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: Scotland is fast becoming a dumping ground
This is a column that has been playing on my mind for many weeks now. I simply have to get it off my chest.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: Compelled to write on litter again after deluge of emails...
I don’t even open my laptop on Sundays. No emails, no writing related work, no internet in fact. It’s my brain’s day off.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: ‘There will never be peace in the land of peace’
I’ve watched the news on the recent violence across Israel and Gaza with a heavy heart. Yet sadly, none of it surprises me.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: Finders keepers, losers weepers?
A few weeks back, early one Saturday morning when out for a walk, I found two £10 notes lying on the pavement, obviously dropped by mistake.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: What’s in a superstition?
Why do so many humans believe in superstitions when our logical brain tells us that they simply cannot be true?
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: The dark side of fairytales
“And they all lived happily ever after...”
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell looks into the future, and doesn’t like what he sees
For this week's column, I thought I would do something completely different and take a very tongue-in-cheek look at what the headlines might be 20 years from now, on July 3, 2041.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell on the meanings of well-known phrases
I was watching an old movie the other day, and a character said, “Toodle pip”. Of course, I’ve heard it before, but I have to admit, I have no idea what it means.
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell embarks on An Awfully Big Adventure
James Matthew Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, on May 9 1860. He later graduated from Edinburgh University and moved to London to fulfil his dream of being in the world of literature and the...
View ArticleGeorge Mitchell: What happens when we die?
I’m fascinated by politics, religion and the meaning of life - if there is one. I’m also fascinated by death. By that I mean what happens when we die and then after death.
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