Dateline: Ostuni, coastal southern Italy Italy has a right-wing prime minister. Ms Giorgia Meloni is the first woman in the...
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Dictators we have known
It's not only climate change in Libya ... Our old buddy Muammar Gaddafi, or rather Robert Mugabe’s old buddy, might...
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Different strokes for different folks
The swearing-in of the new, old president has been and gone after our disputed elections. Only three African presidents flew...
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Pathways to hell, Dante’s Inferno comes to town
Dante’s Inferno comes to town. Everyone in officialdom blames each other for the fire that killed at least 74 people...
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Lighten up
In times of turmoil and uncertainty, there’s a need to lighten up. Not necessarily with beer. But Derek Watts, an...
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Beautiful Zimbabwe. All is not lost. Yet
Check this out on a somewhat fraught national elections day Here's an absolutely stunning video. To plagiarise David Livingstone,...
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Man buys comb
The comb is for tidying a new beard gown to distract you from my thinning cheeks and jowls, the...
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A great loss …
Farewell Jane Birkin, singer and actress dead at the age of 76 in Paris. To those of us initiates in...
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Last Tango in Paris
My quota of three grave professional errors – erreurs graves professionelles – had been used up. It was the end of...
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