Trump’s Syria attack
The world is a scarier place today: after an apparent nerve-gas attack by the Syrian air force killed more...
Category: USA
Washington Post and The Financial Times on the #electronicsban
Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why. By Henry Farrell and Abraham...
Security or protectionism?
Bad news yesterday for the portable office warrior. People like me who carry a laptop, ipad and one or...
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...