Dubai: the sheikh and his daughters
Dubai can be amusing, in a voyeuristic way, for a week or two. Tallest building in the world and the mall with the shark tank, but it’s the people, ...
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Burma: back to basics
China’s Xinhua news agency tactfully described the Burmese army’s seizure of power on Monday as a ‘cabinet reshuffle’. This suggests a possible new approach for Donald Trump’s ...
Robots are not what we first imagined but the jobs are rapidly disappearing
They were planning to put on a play written by an artificial intelligence programme in Prague this month, to mark the invention of robots (or at least the idea of ...
Lenin comes to town (again)
By Gwynne Dyer
When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny returned to Moscow on Sunday after convalescing in Germany from an attempted poisoning by the FSB domestic spy agency, the regime-friendly ...
Lucky Joe Biden and his gifts from Trump
Joe Biden is thrice blessed. Not only did he win the Democratic nomination and then the presidential election, but as a result of the events of January 6 he takes office ...
Vaccines: one shot now, one shot much later
Triage is always crude and messy, and there are always mistakes, but the goal is to save as many lives as possible in an emergency where there are not enough ...
‘American’ Democracy
If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the ‘crisis of American democracy’ and what it means for the world, I’m going to retch.
The last straw ...