This is a photo I took while passing the infamous former KGB prison, Lubyanka, in Moscow. It is beginning to sound like Putin may be having the cobwebs swept out if his jails run out of space.
I want this site to become a process of thinking out loud about current affairs, photography, films and books and that, with your contributions, we can find greater clarity in a complex world.
Hogan's Alley incorporates my name with references to both Ben Hogan's mastery of the Riviera Country Club and to Fred Allen's "Allen's Alley". Golf is a passion with which I torture myself. Fred Allen each week presented American stereotypes with a humor and insight, which I hope to emulate.