The French have found it necessary to deny that Monsieur Macron and his British and German buddies Starmer and Merz snorted cocaine on their way from Ukraine by train. Russia...
As the Jesuits used to say: Give us the boy and we’ll keep the man, no matter his digressions in between. It worked well for Robert Mugabe. After years as...
(Kleptocracy from ancient Greek: Rule by thieves ) The display of motor oils on the forecourt of a filling station a couple of blocks away is impressive. But the containers...
The bad news is that after years of neglect this is not being done as a public service. A summit meeting of heads of state and government is coming soon....
As the classic tale for us old broke folk recalls: “If they say money talks, mine only says goodbye.” Plenty of money is floating around but it is not coming...
May Day, mayday, mayday, the international radio distress signal for ships and planes but no-one has heard ours. Zimbabwe is going down fast and furious and there’s no rescue on...
THE HOME FOR THE BEWILDERED In the clinic, the Home for the Bewildered, they asked me if I had smuggled anything in. How do you find your way to a...
My dear, intelligent Border Collie went to doggies’ heaven. Heaven because I can’t see how she could ever have sinned. Gabby, originally named after the angel Gabriel, succumbed to kidney...
An algorithm is a formula that solves problems: x+y = z. Got it? No, the formula goes so much further than that. Heaven forbid, it can now be called “a...
Thinking about things “woke.” It certainly has nothing to do with rising from a good night’s sleep. Definitions of the word are, at best, unclear. Wikipedia says it derives from...
