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Building on Sand? The Perils of Peacemaking in Sudan

11th September 2024 Going Postal 0

After 16 months of civil war, Sudan increasingly resembles a ‘failed state’, with displacement and man-made famine driving one of the ‘worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory’. Following early setbacks, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) [more…]

20th Century

Disaster Over The Strait of Hormuz

27th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

As Mrs AWS and I flash through the Scottish Lowlands after our day trip to Edinburgh, passing through Lockerbie station reminds us of events decades ago and thousands of miles away. Nowadays the term ‘Gulf [more…]

20th Century

Near-Disaster at 39,000ft

20th July 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

Returning home from our day trip to Edinburgh, myself and Mrs AWS have pause for thought as we eat our Burger Kings in Standard Premium. Beyond our train window, the peaceful Scottish Lowlands flash past. [more…]

21st Century

Macron Keeps Discrediting France

8th May 2024 Going Postal 0

At this rate, there’s no longer any credible chance that France will revive its independent foreign policy traditions after the five major foreign policy mistakes that Macron made over just the last two years. He’s [more…]

Diary

A View From The Greenhouse; Doctors, Architects, Aspiring DJ’s

16th April 2024 Colin Cross 0

They keep turning up, farm implements of indeterminate age, mostly bladed and mostly without shafts. It seems unlikely that his particular scimitar like implement is either a sickle or scythe; I’m guessing it had a [more…]

Arts

Citizens Khan And The Home Office Propaganda Effort

5th April 2024 Always Worth Saying 0

‘He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department. Presumably – since he had sometimes seen her with oily hands and carrying a spanner – she had some [more…]

Authoritarianism

A View From The Greenhouse; Fear & Loathing In Dumfries & Galloway, Hate Crimes….Innit?

2nd April 2024 Colin Cross 0

It was great to meet up with old friends and meet some new ones at the “Northern” get together. The more intrepid amongst the august gathering braved a short, if wet, walk down (and back [more…]

Diary

A View From The (Partially Dismantled) Greenhouse; That’s Different….Innit?

20th February 2024 Colin Cross 0

Life (and concomitant jobs) continue apace, the proposed outside growing area is almost cleared up, with any amount of farmyard detritus either taken to the tip or simply moved to another area, where it will [more…]

20th Century

The Muslim Brotherhood, Part Nine

20th December 2023 Going Postal 0

The Anglo-American Alliance (AAA) led powers used an old tactic of population displacement throughout the wars in the Middle East. They were putting into practice Kelly Greenhill’s theories concerning “Strategic Engineered Migration as a Weapon [more…]

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