Author: Angus Shaw

Railroad to nowhere

China, the master of rail and bullet trains, has offered to step in and fix it. Don’t hold your breath. The rail network has suffered from years of neglect. Lines...

How to be a good bedfellow

Putin is our pal. As is Xi Jinping. So is the Supreme Leader in the crucible of radical fundamentalism, Iran. It goes something like this. The so-called  ‘progressive world’  helped...

All about pigs

You can’t fatten a pig on market day. That’s a cry heard around election manifestos that offer a variety of  enticements to voters that fall short of real solutions. A...

Roll up, roll up for a zig-zag

Some of us might remember roll-ups in the good old bad old days. Bill Clinton said he tried a hand-rolled spliff at college but didn’t inhale. The rolling papers were...

Seismic shifts …

Taylor Swift is conquering the world. Not the least of it, fans known as Swifties invaded a London pub in their multitudes to see the bar stool she once sat...