Melilla Musings

The mass crossing last July of 80,000 illegal migrants (and deaths of over 100 people) into Ceuta, a Spanish enclave … More

The End.

Oh ok, in our ‘news feed’ between Pauline’s latest brain fart and American football entertaining a big crowd in Melbourne, … More

Maaate, comrade!? Further to the short list of vernacular expressions in Oriental Wisdom, a provocative addition was spotted yesterday in … More

Redolent of a bygone Western imperialist era of learning and borrowing Eastern concepts, the term often covers yin & yang, … More

As a schoolboy rugby player, soccer has always been soccer for me, but I accept that the recent World Cup … More

Anne Whitehead relates the engaging story of the unlikely meeting in 1815 on the island of Saint Helena, of thirteen … More

SpaceX shares floated just last week and have since ‘slumped’ US$800 billion in value, which is equal to the GDP … More

Subtitled A portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914, by Barbara Tuchman, it is an impressive history of the … More

Ex-CIA boss James Comey has been indicted by the US Department of Justice for threatening to kill the President with … More

Hungary has massively rejected veteran autocrat Orbàn and his oligarchy at the ballot box, despite his controlled state and private … More