Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Trump? Isolated?

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Here's Mr. Trump at the G7 meeting . Everyone else seems vey animated and engaged. But does no-one want to speak to Trump? Say it ain...
Monday, June 15, 2026

What has America achieved in Iran?

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It's taken four months, and not a "few days" as advertised, but Donald Trump finally has his Iran Deal (or, rather, a memoran...

Trump outdoes himself in the vulgarity stakes

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It's hard to keep up with candidates for peak idiocy in Trump World, but yesterday's mixed martial arts (MMA) extravaganza on the Wh...

Kash Patel is the archetypical chud

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My new favourite word is "chud", although I confess I have never used it IRL (in real life). The word "chud"  supposedly...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

I'm OK with Canada's modest AI ambitions

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Call me a Luddite, but I can't help but be extremely suspicious of the whole world's reckless infatuation with Artificial Intelligen...

Canada's most important draw ever?

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It's kind of pathetic, but kind of cute in a way. All of Canada is celebrating the one point it won agaist lowly Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The sad natural history of Mauritius

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It's weird to find out about it by reading Salman Rushdie's memoirs book Joseph Anton , but I only found out today that the now-exti...

Trump's attendance at Knicks game sheer selfishness

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New York Knicks fans are saying that Donald Trump's presence at Game 3 of the NBA finals "killed the vibe", "messed up t...