a blog for those hard to find news items, awkward subjects and unwanted conversations.
With the daily avalanche of doom and hideous gloom battering us from every angle – it’s very difficult (neigh, almost impossible!) to find any silver lining strong enough to tug on with reasonable focus and interest. So when you trip over the odd headline here and foreign-correspondent article there (in quiet corners of the [...]
David Frum, the former speechwriter for President George W Bush normally pounds the Kool-Aid a tad too excessively for my liking – BUT this article (entitled, “Russian Democracy is Dying“) is right on the money. Succinct, non-partisan and well-thought out – if you can spare five minutes, I’d highly recommend.
- We do know … over [...]
You’ve got to love Chris Matthews – the weekday host of MSNBC’s Hardball. Wednesday (February 28th), the day after the hideous 4% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial – triggered by a 10% sell off in China – Chris Matthews asked the questions seemingly neglected by the masses.
“Why did a sell-off in Shanghai cause a [...]
As we all know – annual conferences are a great venue for peacock pride, barrel-chested bravado, and well-worn speeches full of optimism and strategy yet hollow on truth and outcome.
The annual Munich Conference on Security Policy is this and so much more. The conference, in its 43rd year, invites “the international security community – ministers, [...]
Whilst the U.S. media continues its obsession with Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell – the world continues to spin. In Europe however – there appears considerably less ’spin’ and plenty more shudder! Russia has been flexing its economic muscle over former Soviet countries and a significant portion of the European Union. Its weapon? The supply [...]
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