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Posts from the ‘USA’ Category

The twin sagas of Trump and Brexit, and four aspects of Brexit that keep me awake on December 2, 2018

“The world is a dangerous place!” The statement on Khashoggi that Trump could have made (but never would). on November 25, 2018

Saudi Arabia and the West after Khashoggi: friendships are more powerful than politics on October 23, 2018

Mixing it – memories, moral equivalence and the fate of Jamal Khashoggi on October 14, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi on October 10, 2018

Obesity: searching for an inconvenient truth on October 3, 2018

The sour smell of success on October 1, 2018

Brexit – a floating voter’s lament on September 25, 2018

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad (or, Who let the dogs out?) on September 9, 2018

Summer Reading: The Innocents Abroad on September 4, 2018

Pearls of wisdom from the Lurve Industry on August 30, 2018

Welcome to the ugliest American on July 13, 2018

Summer in Russia, winter in America and the opium of football on July 4, 2018

The Rules of Golf – a shining beacon for our new world order? on June 10, 2018

So it’s time to stamp out cruelty to small words on June 7, 2018

Shame, Redemption and the American Way on May 31, 2018

Fog signals, lightning strikes and obituaries – a wander down the byways of the mainstream media on May 29, 2018

Blissful evenings with the AntiTrump on April 15, 2018

The Social Media – Walking the Streets of Hatred Central on April 10, 2018

The Anatomy of a Leaker on April 4, 2018

Daniel Ellsberg’s nuclear Doomsday Machine – still with us today on March 31, 2018

Delete Facebook to keep the data predators at bay? I don’t think so on March 22, 2018

Cambridge Analytica: a movie in the making? on March 20, 2018

Opioids – a crutch, a weapon or just the latest health crisis? on March 1, 2018

And now, breaking news from our 2030 correspondent: Trump is here to stay on February 15, 2018

Winter Reading: Two books to keep outrage fatigue at bay on February 12, 2018

A doctor’s mistake, and the potential consequences for healthcare in Britain on February 10, 2018

Political leadership: mental impairment is not the only road to disaster on January 15, 2018

2017 Retrospective Part 6: Out in the big bad world on January 4, 2018

2017 Retrospective Part 4: Enemies, Traitors and Saboteurs on January 3, 2018