Sunday, 28 February 2021

When will the real financial reckoning for Covid start?

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We have all got so used to vast sums being spent to prop up economies and livelihoods during this pandemic that millions, billions or trilli...
Saturday, 27 February 2021

Biden's insuperable problem with Saudi Arabia

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Unfortunately Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sultan, de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, is not going step down and go quietly into a tent in the de...
Friday, 26 February 2021

When push comes to shove, Russian diplomats leave North Korea by trolley

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When you gotta go you gotta go. Russian diplomats based in Pyongyang but due to leave to return to their Motherland were told there was no w...
Thursday, 25 February 2021

Trump's political reemergence and the Sunday speech

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It's all boiling up nicely for the political reemergence of Donald Trump after five weeks of golf. On Sunday he is to make a speech at t...
Wednesday, 24 February 2021

Mitt Romney admits Trump would slam-dunk 2024 Republican nomination

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This says it all about the state of politics in the United States and, in particular, the state of the Republican party. Mitt Romney, former...
Tuesday, 23 February 2021

Faces without masks - that's what I look forward to

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Apart from the appalling death toll from Covid-19, the separation of loved-ones and the desperate strain seen in the faces of doctors and nu...
Monday, 22 February 2021

Lockdown has been all about can'ts and don'ts

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Hopefully after what seems like 12 months of "you can't do this and you can't do that" we are about to enter a new period,...