‘What will the news be about when the war is over?’ I recall asking my mother this question after hearing that an atom bomb had destroyed Hiroshima. That wireless in…
If you must have a mantra, and we all expect it now from our leaders, ‘stability’ is not a bad choice, certainly better than the ‘growth’ or ‘delivery’ that I…
Was there ever a time when we didn’t kickstart our day by automatically picking up the mobile or placing a personal computer onto our lap to go online? A bygone age, when…
Some years ago, I discovered that I am not able to worry about more than one thing at a time. When two disasters struck simultaneously, each kept displacing the other…
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s narrow victory over Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election provided a small note of encouragement to those of us who hang onto the hope…
The definition of a digital asset is changing. If you think it’s the smartphone in your pocket as you stroll along Sauchiehall Street â listening through bluetooth state-of-the-art noise cancelling…
Are you finding it difficult to keep up with the Covid story? You are not alone. Early in this series of essays on the subject, I recalled that in the…
The distance between Cairo and Qatar is about 2,000km. The carbon footprint of Egypt is about 220 million tons per annum, 27th highest in the world but with a population…
As a fully paid-up subscriber to the online Chic Murray appreciation society, courtesy of Facebook (oops, now calling themselves Meta), I’m well aware of how the late comedic legend was…
It was found in a small box during one of our attempts at clearing accumulated clutter: an 1873 farthing. We still use the expression for valueless, ‘not worth a farthing’,…