It is odd to me that news as such lasts so little time and we have to be reminded of matters of moment that are a month old because we have moved on. It is amazing to me that debates are reduced to seconds and the sound-bites are shared on social media and in news…
Month: June 2024
The de Bunsen Committee and a Revision of the ‘Conspiracy’ of Sykes-Picot
Abstract: The Sykes-Picot Agreement is often cited as evidence of a Western conspiracy to carve up the Middle East and subordinate the Arabs. It is a prevalent view across the region, and has been a refrain repeated by many critics. Yet almost nothing is known of the far more significant conclusions of the Committee, formed…
People Ask Me …
all the time what I think of the situation in Gaza. War is vile and urban war is horrific. Soldiers will tell you it is the bitterest kind of warfare. There is no doubt that Hamas are hiding behind civilians as insurgents and guerillas do when fighting a superior enemy. That they are hiding behind…
It Is Always Dawn Somewhere
We used to think we were connected by a shared planet but in recent years we have come to understand that we are all cousins; a millennia admixture of apes adapting to their environments to survive and breed that eventually became tribes. Archeologists have also suggested that the evidence points to every tribe having been…
Bagpipe Music
Bagpipe music (1938) It’s no go the merry-go-round, it’s no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow. Their knickers are made of crêpe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python, Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with heads of bison.John MacDonald found a corpse, put it…