Security or protectionism?
Bad news yesterday for the portable office warrior. People like me who carry a laptop, ipad and one or...
Category: USA
Not so fake
On Facebook yesterday a US based friend posted a comment with (his or her 🙂 ) thoughts on the...
Trump inauguration speech – let’s revisit this in four years!
This is really just a bookmark – the text of Trump’s inauguration speech, as prepared for delivery. It was...
#IAmARefugee
On twitter this evening – this series of tweets from a New York Times correspondent. Self explanatory. This is...
Trump turns into schoolyard bully
The early days of the Trump presidency were always going to be difficult. But this first week has seen...
Emirates to Newark via Athens!
Well I did not see this coming – and in launches in little more than six week’s time. Emirates...
President Barack Obama’s farewell speech
We will not see a world leader of his like again – not in my lifetime. Articulate, human, decent....
Goodbye 2016 – you will be remembered but not missed
In international affairs it was a strange and alarming year. For me, as the picture shows, I traveled, I...
The Economist reflects on the Obama presidency
Barack Obama’s presidency lurched between idealism and acrimony but some of his accomplishments will endure, writes The Economist in...
Farewell John Glenn – you truly were the right stuff.
John Glenn died on 8 December. He was 95. Glenn was a folk hero to anyone who grew up...