We used to say when there was lightning it was just God taking your photo. Sheets of lightning cracked through the night skies, followed by rolling thunder a moment or...

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...

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...

Eyes smile, they admonish, they smoulder, they moisten. The eyes show what’s going on behind them. Evasiveness and dishonesty, for starters. Leaders are lying, war mongers are mad and would...

Beyoncé isn’t coal black but in the way of many Americans she isn’t white either. It is election year over there and as far back as Richard Nixon country music...

Anglophiles among us will have been following the English tradition of the annual boat race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames. The river is so polluted...

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission plus a smattering of government freeloaders back from a trip to the Russian election have sworn voting was “free and fair and credible” and “a true...

In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double/ Ain’t got no place to lay your head, somebody came and took your bed/ When you...

After my recent piece from chaotic, dispirited and decrepit Harare I dug out something I did for Skyhost, the Air Zimbabwe in-flight magazine 15 years ago when we still had...