Monthly Archive: December 2016

It’s not all that meets the eye

People on the social networks are finding all sorts of symbolism – and satire – in the latest Time magazine Person of the Year cover I mentioned last time for...

Lies, lies, lies and more lies …

Well, well, well, what a sorry state of affairs we find ourselves in. Here we have US$100 issued by a bank in single, grimy one dollar notes – the only...

I woke up this morning feeling the blues

Yet there are antidotes for the blues. Sunrise and sunset (left), the dawn chorus, all-embracing music, the beauty of storytelling...

Theatre of the absurd

If some behaviour at the just-ended UN General Assembly was theatre of the absurd ... make no mistake, it's not...

Moses the Masai Warrior

To escape from woeful international news there's been the week's World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. It throws up this...

A picture tells 1,000 words

This old saying saves people like me trying to explain it and getting dragged into a snake pit of debate....

Peace, a faraway place

It was a clever plan. The warring sides could meet for peace talks on a train straddling the border. The...

The blanket principle

"I would rather be cold under one blanket than warm under 10 blankets owned by the Anglo American Corporation."...

A blast from the past. Don’t miss it

It's just days away on Saturday Aug 2. Get your diary out and make a plan. It'll be worth it....

Anyone for tennis?

Two of them were betting on the Wimbledon final. The one whose barks and yelps favoured Jannik Sinner won...

Money doesn’t grow on trees …

Money doesn't grow on trees but there's plenty of it to be found beneath and beyond. There are risks in...

Howie Burditt, our all-weather china

(china: old southern Africa lingo from London Cockney rhyming slang 'china plate' or mate.) Obituary-Howard Burditt, long-serving Reuters photographer in...