Why ‘Black Lives Matter’ matters
When I was a teenager my father went to work in Nigeria. I was banished to boarding school in...
Category: people
The message that Xi JinPing should send
Amidst all the US/China tub-thumping, finger-pointing and unhelpful commentary at all levels of government and society here is a...
Impeached but secure
So on 18 December 2019 Donald Trump became the third US President to be impeached by the House of...
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...
“We have now become fearless”
Denise Ho testified yesterday at the United States’ Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) in Washington DC: this was her...
Khashoggi’s last Washington Post column – his honesty cost him his life
I have re-published this op-ed from today’s Washington Post unedited and in full. Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen...
Make it so….
Two days ago I finished reading “The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard” written by David Goodman and published in late...
Parade season in Chiang Mai
The cooler February weather heralds parade season in Chiang Mai and the surrounding area. The flower festival is the...
To boldly go….
As a kid I kept scrapbooks of all the early Mercury, Gemini, Apollo space flights. I could name all...
Blue Rodeo – on the road
Made a few years ago this short film pays tribute to beloved Canadian country rock band Blue Rodeo. They’ve...