• World Food Programme –

    It is widely respected but greatly undermined by Trump, and that is the World Food Programme. The difficulty they have in feeding the poor, destitute and refugees is an argument of budgets. It is not an identity that the United Nations wants; it is a factor in the arsenal of the international community reaching out…

  • The voice that sung and lashed by the theocracy

    There is an element of indifference to the argument of who or what is leading the Iranian state. The contest in identity and ideology is being fought out in the state and in the same sense – the identity of the state is being cemented by an argument, ideology, or theocracy that has not learnt…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • 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…