In the song it gets in your eyes, but long term the lung thing is not good for our health! …
Beyond Brexit – Disunited Kingdom
The British (or is that English?) people have again voted themselves out of Europe. To help understand their mass psychology,…
Kardashian vs Turkey
We have to temporarily suspend our strict anti-celebrity guideline, to recognise Kim’s strategic influence on world diplomacy. Not Jong-Un of…
Blade Runner 2019
An apocalyptic description and harrowing experience of the Harbour City aka Sydney during the dark, smoke-covered days of recent weeks…
Pisa Poor & Paris Pettifogging
Be patient, this may look like another pathetic postulate, and peculiar plethora of alliteration, but the latter is an important…
Snowden Tells All
‘Permanent Record’ is Edward Snowden’s recent autobiography, and a fascinating insight into US government internet surveillance. The preface opening sets…
Scotty, beam us up?
Hmm, we may have found a diagnosis for the apparently wilful ignorance (‘denialism’ is resting today) of Our PM in…
‘Hungary is Lost’
Subtitled: Hungry in Hungary! Fleeting impressions from a recent visit to Budapest are confirmed in this eye-opening analysis of the…
‘Banking Bad’
Guest commentator Matt Caine has prepared this review of a recent book by Adele Ferguson, whose journalistic investigations were instrumental in…
Ljubljana Love
Who put love in Slovenia, a pocket-sized country squeezed between Austria, Hungary, Italy and Croatia? While roaming central Europe, your…