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2020 – when masks hid our smile

The abiding memory of 2020 will be masks. Masks everywhere. Masks that help stop the spread of the virus...

When I was a teenager my father went to work in Nigeria. I was banished to boarding school in...

Amidst all the US/China tub-thumping, finger-pointing and unhelpful commentary at all levels of government and society here is a...

So on 18 December 2019 Donald Trump became the third US President to be impeached by the House of...

Greta Thunberg was announced yesterday as Time magazine’s person of the year prompting the usual online spite: This from...

Denise Ho testified yesterday at the United States’ Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) in Washington DC: this was her...

I have re-published this op-ed from today’s Washington Post unedited and in full. Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen...

Two days ago I finished reading “The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard” written by David Goodman and published in late...

The cooler February weather heralds parade season in Chiang Mai and the surrounding area. The flower festival is the...

As a kid I kept scrapbooks of all the early Mercury, Gemini, Apollo space flights. I could name all...