Farewell to Europe, or 10 things I’ve learned while back in the Old World
All good things must come to an end. I’m not talking about Europe here, though a great many commentators, mostly of a more conservative bent […]
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Egypt – The Verdict
Egypt is a country of magnificent past, depressing present, and uncertain future. I’ve left the land of the Nile early this morning, having to wake […]
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Egypt, or the stupidity of cultural appropriation
I think I’ve finally put my finger on what really shits me about “cultural appropriation” – besides the fact that the whole concept has been […]
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Time for May to roll the Labour Bourbons
If the British PM Theresa May is smart, she will call an early post-Brexit election over the next few months instead of waiting until 2020. […]
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Concerned about climate change? Don’t have children
Travis Rieder is a moral philosophy and bioethics professor at Johns Hopkins University. In his new short book, “Towards a Small Family Ethic”, he posits […]
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All Pyramids Matter
(I’m really sorry about the cover photo; a bad local made me do it, and then he wanted money from me) Apologies to all the […]
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Who’s your mummy – the Egyptian Museum photo essay
Like most decent buildings in Cairo, the grand Egyptian Museum dates to British colonial times. Like many British colonial buildings, it doesn’t seem to have […]
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Catching Uber in Cairo with Mahmoud
My trendy early-adopter Gen Y and Millennial friends will be shocked to learn that I’ve never used Uber before. It’s not that I don’t appreciate […]
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Join my pyramid scheme
Egypt. The five letters that evoke timeless exoticism and fascination. The pyramids and the Sphinx. The land of the Pharaohs and of the Nile. Egyptians, […]
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Angelina Dumps Brad Over JoBenet Murder
I often look at the bottom of Buzz… Sorry, I mean News.com.au page at their list of top 10 most read stories at the moment. […]
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A tale of two cities
Every city in reality is two cities: the centre and the periphery, uptown and downtown, inner city and suburbs, the richer middle and upper class […]
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Recent European history summarized in one picture
As Glenn Reynolds would say, “fundamentally transformed”: Others could say, “population replacement”. One could rather flippantly note that between 1940 and 1945 Germans worked very […]
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The Nazis return, or the coming German/European crack-up
You’ve heard it here first: it’s Sunday night in Berlin, and brown-shirted storm troopers are marching through the streets once again, torch in one hand […]
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Fat is an Anglo-Saxon issue
It’s been two and a half weeks in Europe now, three countries, about dozen cities and towns ranging from 3.5 million to 1000 inhabitants in […]
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The left bashes Trump for believing conspiracy theories perpetuated by the left
You don’t see me too often defending Donald Trump, but what’s fair is fair. The left keeps slamming Trump (rightly) for being a conspiracy monger, […]
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Dreams from my grandfather on the bridge too far
I walk along the edge of the field towards the hedge of trees. Hidden behind the hedge is a caravan park, and behind the caravan […]
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No, wondering about Hillary’s health is not sexist prejudice
One of my favourite Twitter accounts is @SoMuchGuardian, which highlights the self-parodying output of this trendy inner city leftie rag. One of the most recent […]
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Is Paris “a post-apocalyptic hellhole of public urination and litter”?
Zoe Strimpel at “The Daily Telegraph” has had a different Paris experience than me: It was 1am and we were just leaving dinner at a […]
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Here comes the Euro-army
Or maybe not. Like weather, a European army is something that everyone keeps talking about but no one does anything about. One could argue that […]
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Bring back Cossie
Should Peter Costello come back to politics and save the Liberal Party? So says the radio host Neil Mitchell, while rallying about the “current lot” […]
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