ANGUS SHAW Blog

When will we ever learn?

Click below. Country Joe and the Fish. Have a quick listen to this classic anti-war song of 1969. Then flip back on the screen reverse arrow to return to text....

Around and around we go …

It’s all spinning out of control but those who can unspin it either can’t or won’t. Here in my lil’ ol’ home town prices have got to the Moon on...

Freedom fails to deliver

What on earth is freedom? It is usually defined as freedom of expression, freedom of worship, freedom from fear and freedom from want. Where on earth is it to be...

I’ll be damned …

Well, well, well – this early, what a year it has already been. Starting with Venezuela and then Ms Machado giving away her Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel adjudicators say...

It’s been a weirdo year

The Harare mayor’s ceremonial limo broke down taking him a short two kilometres to the switching on of the city centre Christmas lights Granted the vehicle is decades old, a...

Mutoko Madness. On sale now!

MUTOKO MADNESS. From Rhodesia’s Bush War to Africa’s Killing Fields. A Reporter’s Journey. The long road, peppered with Africa’s beauty and despair, its realities, its cynicism, its blunt humour. Click...

Height of the ridiculous

With all the bucks on the sticky fingers of officialdom, the state electricity company can’t buy extra cable and spare parts. Now they are begging for loans from Joe Public,...

Thanks, but we’re out of here …

We the extra terrestrials came down to see for ourselves. But soon we put our flying saucers into reverse gear and departed, disappointed once again. We had hovered over the...

New twists

Nowadays few will remember the dance craze made popular by Chubby Checker based on moves likened to drying one’s back with a bath towel and squirming the feet on errant...