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  • The revolution within a revolution….

    In 2022 – it was five hundred – that was the number dead declared after the Mahsa Amini demonstrations. That number was significant, it was a number the Ayatollahs and Revolutionary Guard elite could settle on as a statement of power – a number that was not high enough for the outside world to be…

  • Christmas Newsletter

    Christmas newsletter House-keeping.  I am sorry for not writing in the last month and half, but I have been re-appraising whether to continue writing articles. In the past month I have introduced an AI bot and I am experimenting with a new type of output, which will come out later in the year when the finance comes through for…

  • Xi Jinping and Chinese hegemony.

    Xi Jinping is one tough nut to crack. The inscrutable leader who demonstrates no emotion and has no equity in any emotional outcome challenges anybody who has to face him. Behind the veneer are life lessons of being an outsider within the establishment, but he can also be characterised as being an insider. The poverty…

  • Will the 20 point plan lead to more….

    Having read Yair Lapid’s argument for change in Israel there is one lesson and that is not to take anything coming out of the mouth of Netanyahu as having any value when in  negotiation. In announcing Trump’s proposal for his 20 point peace plan, there is a realisation that Netanyahu had decided to destroy the…

  • The Rage

    It has been bothering me for over a month…. The words of Trump – that the Palestinians holding the hostages in tunnels were inhuman “ not a word – no humanity, nothing. There was no warmth, a little word of encouragement. A lot of bad things . Hamas have said they are going to use the…

  • For authoritarians who take themselves to seriously

    I am not a fan of psychologists or psychiatrists, I have never been. One is a pill pedaller and the other delves into the psych to perform arguments that at times are theoretical and at others are damn right dangerous. There is a way to come to truths, arguments and mostly reflect on the internal…