• Economics

    This is fine………

    The world has been quietly and stubbornly walking away from the US dollar and US Treasuries the last half decade. Now, that walk is becoming a march, and “quietly” is turning to “loudly”. Some in the financial [more...]
  • 21st Century

    The Sharika Plan, Part Two

    Kenya hosts the largest U.S. embassy in sub-Saharan Africa and has regularly ranked among the top recipients of U.S. foreign aid globally, a majority of it focused on health programs. Under the first Trump Administration, [more...]
  • 20th Century

    Letters from an Arbeitsmaid – Part Two

    In Part 1, I described how in late 1943 and early 1944, Hildegard Uhl had written to her friend Eva Möller, the recipient of Feldpost from the Afrika Korps soldier Hans Coutandin of “Desert Mystery: [more...]
  • America

    Epstein……Behind the Curtain (Part 1)

    Everybody wants to talk about the island — the private jet with its logbook of the damned, the underage girls ferried like cargo between Caribbean shorelines and Manhattan penthouses, the hidden cameras and mahogany-doored rituals [more...]
  • Arts

    Jack and his Giant Stalk

    Venue: Brick Lane Music Hall, Silvertown I haven’t been to a panto since I took my nephews then aged 4 & 6 to one (I forget which) in Colston Hall, Bristol (can we say ‘Colston’ [more...]

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