I’m currently reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. I’m just over a hundred or so pages into it and we have reached the discovery of the Dinosaurs. It’s an excellent book, written in Bryson’s trademark prose – humorous, digestible, and impeccably structured.
I never thought I would enjoy a book [...]
An alternative Bible for American schools
Jacques Chirac and the End of the World
So, will World War III actually be started by a geriatric French crook? I hadn´t thought of this scenario – obviously the Islam-Christian/Jewish stand-off is the most likely spark today, but I always assumed it would somehow be Israel-centric in some form or other – perhaps a Jewish terrorist attack on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, or an [...]
Bin Laden offers US a way out of current fracas
Just as US conservative commentators had confidently began a disinformation campaign that Osama Bin Laden had bitten the metaphorical bullet, everyone’s favourite international terrorist reared his valuable head above the parapet, with a lengthy voice recording.
The message was delivered, as it now accepted protocol, by the Qatar-based news agency al-Jazeera. Both the al-Jazeera and the [...]
