The shooting down of PS752
Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 took off at 6.12am on Wednesday 8 January, after nearly an hour’s delay...
Author: rascott
Ten years’ old
The Burj Khalifa opened ten years ago on January 2nd 2010. There were celebrations, fireworks and then the tower...
Uncharted territory – the USA pursues regime change in Iran
The new year drone strike that killed Iran’s most prominent commander, Qassem Suleimani, will have profound consequences for the...
Australia is burning
Picture: The Guardian: By Richard Flanagan – from the New York Times Mr. Flanagan is an Australian author who...
Bangkok Post on the theatre of the absurd
19 December 2019 The Bangkok Post can be a strange beast. For the most part it does not take...
A few elephant pictures
Because I have them – and because there are few creatures more elegant or calming! These were taken at...
Impeached but secure
So on 18 December 2019 Donald Trump became the third US President to be impeached by the House of...
Time off twitter
Bye bye Twitter – I am done with you until at least 2020. And when I come back I...
Greta Thunberg’s call for action
Greta Thunberg was announced yesterday as Time magazine’s person of the year prompting the usual online spite: This from...
FZ 981 – final report
The final report on the 2016 crash of flydubai flight 981, a Boeing 737-800 at Rostov-on-Don, Russia, was issued...