Dear Somatines,   Valentine’s Day is here: that strange hodgepodge of Hollywood, chocolate, Portishead and dinner plans that seems to be cool one year, and deeply uncool the next.   Valentine’s Day is the world’s...

  Dear Somasoldiers,   This week we write from the big smoke, where we’ve come to attend a funeral.   It’s always a shock for us to travel from our home among cane farms beside...