… when Camille Paglia starts to analyse the US Presidential race.
… when Camille Paglia starts to analyse the US Presidential race.
An example of utterly wonderful service. My trusted old Leatherman supertool knife which I bought well over a decade ago somehow got itself ‘blocked’ and would not open. These Leathermen are the best knives and utility tools around, by the way. So I looked on the Internet and found that […]
As Titanic-Mugabe steams urgently towards the rocks one asks oneself: what is really going on here? The key ‘deep’ point to remember in all this is that Zimbabwe leader Mugabe is not (like South Africa President Thabo Mbeki) a Communist, but rather an Africanist. The European Communist tradition stressing class struggle as […]
How often do you see really truly awesomely rich people standing in a queue? Not often. But it happens.
While our leaders and Op-Ed writers argue the toss about the rights and wrongs of Ukraine’s possible eventual membership of NATO, let’s not forget that the EU is trying to work with Ukraine and Russia to ‘manage’ various vast processes in which we all have common interests. One – maybe […]
Rian Malan’s book My Traitor’s Heart about South Africa is a towering classic. It describes in a raw way which much rattled ‘liberal’ opinion at the time just how African and ‘other’ most of South Africa in fact is, and just how unimaginably and painfully far ‘whites’ have to go […]
This Guardian piece by Professor Robert Service about NATO/Russia has been noted in Poland. One sentence caught my eye (highlighted): What is more, Russians, from their present and future Presidents downwards, can see no justification for the US to turn states on Russia’s borders into engines of American regional power. […]
The option of throwing the Bad Leader overboard of course is not the only one available to the Bad Leader’s nearest and dearest. They instead can strap the old villain to the wheel, aim the ship firmly at the rocks and scream "full steam ahead". The bland assurances of South […]
The Russian Duma has passed a resolution rejecting claims that the mass starvation in Ukraine in the 1930s amounted to genocide. This AP report on the resolution has been picked up widely. It quotes the resolution thus: There is no historical proof that the famine was organized along ethnic lines. Its […]
I once had a go flying a British Army Chinook helicopter, near Dubrovnik. This is a serious machine. It weighs some 32,000 pounds without a load. Yet its basic controls are disconcertingly simple. One small tweak on a lever and it jumps off the ground into the air. Pilots who […]
