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Sitting, waiting and then tomorrow.
Shamefully someone has asked me to write a piece on the standoff in northern Ireland. I really do not want to but I will. There really is very little to say other than Michelle O’Neill is in an impossible position within an argument that was stoked and is being stoked by two arguments about where…
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Azawad – an argument of identity….
This is an old article about northern Mali, the Tuareg and the destruction of Ghaddafi clan and the consequences for north Africa… enjoy
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Snake oil and presidents
It really is quite a paradox Trump is arguing in Ireland today for an end to Britain in the Falklands and Northern Ireland and at the same time adding Canada to the United States, which is all a bit weird. So what is Trump’s beef with Britain, personally this really is something that I am…
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Can the US retool the World?
Sorry for being away from the laptop for so long… shit has happened and I am just getting back to work…. Enjoy… it is a start…
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A conflict within a confliction
It really is not a question of making a deal, it is exactly what was in the memorandum the two sides agreed – ‘an understanding.’ To understand the Shi’ism practiced in Iran – is to understand the Iranian state and how it is underpinned by factions, rivalries and arguments in how the Islamic regime identifies…
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It is Friday…. maybe there is hope for diplomacy….
It is Friday…. there is something lacking in the narrative in the Islamic side of the Iranian state that has been omnipresent throughout the fifty years of theocratic governance – and that is the guidance delivered by the supreme leader in a time of crisis. Like his father, Motjaba’s ascension to becoming the supreme leader- was and…
