Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
Rich whites have been using the concept of race to divide and conquer the poor since time immemorial. This has manifested over time in episodes that reflect what are arguably the insidious effects of Stockholm Syndrome. Case in point is British Labour MP Rupa Huq, of Pakistani descent, accusing British Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer… Read more.
With these referendums, the Russians are saying: We can’t beat them, so let’s claim their territory, and hope for the best. That, in effect, is what Putin is having his puppets in the Russian-back Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk do. Russian-installed leaders in occupied areas of four Ukrainian regions set out plans for referendums… Read more.
Except to him…? After all, that compass clearly guided Harry to abandon royal life in the UK for celebrity life in the US. Service and duty or trapped? What’s more, he then got on US television and hailed the godsend Meghan was for rescuing him from the gilded cage he sees his brother William and… Read more.
Ukraine finally launched its highly touted counteroffensive on August 29. But the whole world is already hailing it as a stunning success. Not least because, over the past 5 days alone, Ukrainian soldiers recaptured territory in eastern Ukraine that took Russian soldiers 5 months to capture. Ukraine’s forces have continued to press their counterattack in… Read more.
This blog is replete with my anti-monarchist views. But those views date back to my childhood. That’s when I developed an innate sense of resentment at seeing my compatriots take greater pride in the “Queen’s Honours” (like knighthoods and OBEs) than in our national independence. But I am heartened that Barbados is leading “Commonwealth countries”… Read more.
Frankly, the way the British media are hailing Meghan and Harry’s return this week, not just William but even Charles can be forgiven for feeling rather like the good son in “The Parable of the Prodigal Son”. But, even though it’s Sunday, I suspect some of you may not appreciate (or even get) that Biblical… Read more.
Their rivalry Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging a genocidal war in Ukraine that is making strange bedfellows of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his predecessor Petro Poroshenko. After all, just weeks before Putin launched it, Zelensky was accusing Poroshenko not just of treason but of attempting to flee justice to boot. Poroshenko is one of… Read more.
I love Finland. And I’m an even bigger fan of female leaders. That’s why I was so proud to proclaim that “Finland is great because women rule. But Sanna Marin, Finland’s party-girl prime minister, is making a mockery of my proclamation. Sanna Marin, Finland’s party-girl prime minister Sky News reported yesterday on her still-unfolding, party-gate… Read more.
Frankly Marina Ovsyannikova seems hell-bent on provoking Putin to make of her the jailed martyr he is making of Alexei Navalny. Marina Ovsyannikova, a former editor of the state-run Channel One network who denounced Moscow’s war on Ukraine during a live TV broadcast, faces criminal charges after Russia’s security services raided her home on Wednesday.… Read more.
Much is being made about explosions that sent Russians scurrying from their beach cabanas on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Tuesday. Ukraine claims they resulted from the derring-do of its Special Forces – who infiltrated behind enemy lines and blew up a Russian military airbase. But red-faced Russia insists the explosions resulted from nothing… Read more.
