
I wonder how many people currently responsive to the Middle East crisis actually have any experience with terrorism ? I do. The circumstances to be honest are rather like an out take […]
I wonder how many people currently responsive to the Middle East crisis actually have any experience with terrorism ? I do. The circumstances to be honest are rather like an out take […]
In 1942 the value of a Jewish life in the Belorussian Village of Domochevo was established at a kilo of sugar or salt. This was the price paid by the Nazis to […]
The European answer to the “ Jewish Problem “ has been enacted over two millennia through; pogroms, blood libels, the massacre of the Jews in 1190 in York, forced conversion or death […]
“There is nothing, quite like preparing for a long international flight than being taken through a market with the smell of rotting flesh, but yes there in front of me was a family pulling their bags too.”
“West Africa is where Old Peugeots 405s come to die, even then they are resurrected and live, in a zombie state, on the streets. This was one such 405. “
We enter the huge cavernous conference Hall and take our seats just as the electricity kicks in and mercifully, so does the air con. And we wait. There is no breakfast coffee there are no rolls there is no water, there is a look of confusion on the faces of staff, it is as if they have been shocked that a conference has turned up
Sometime ago I travelled to Burkina Faso for work. This is a description of what happened and how I saw the trip. It has some humour is has some observations about the country or more specifically the Capital Ouagadougou. Things almost certainly will have changed since then, some for the better some for the worse, the country is now influenced by the Wagner Group.
“Perhaps that is a function of being super rich, they can feel superior to the rest of us . It is a kind of “ nanny knows best “ approach which politically is translated at the, moment, into “Tories know best.” To my mind at least , that is an unfounded assumption .”…
The BBC’s ineptitude in dealing with “Lineker Gate” demonstrates the lack of authority and independence that illustrate a fall from grace that has been palpable this last few years
Last night I was at an SNP Branch meeting. Probably like the rest of the SNP outside of a very narrow circle of exceptionally close friends Nicola Sturgeon’s decision to resign came […]