Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States of America So what’s it going to be for the President of the USA? We learn something new about his Russian obsessions every day, it seems. Now, of…
She did it – signed the letter that triggered the United Kingdom’s ‘Brexit’ from the European Union. I had hoped, ever since the depressing referendum result, that, somehow, we might avoid the consequences of what I consider to be the…
This week, British prime minister, Theresa May looked rattled. She was doing a Trump by walking away from hints that she might have triggered the infamous Article 50 this week to, yes, trigger (ominous word) the United Kingdom’s intention to…
So the great British honours system has announced the latest list of honourees today. Known as the New Years Honours, it bestows ludicrously anachronistic and socially divisive titles to British citizens seen by the establishment to be worthy to join…
An optimistic Wolfiewolfgang in 2008 It was eight years ago today that I started this website – it seems a world away from now as we look to another new year with, mostly, very different faces among the world’s…
I’m mostly quite a cheerful optimistic type of person but, really, looking at the world as we move towards Christmas, what is there to be cheerful and optimistic about? Well, I just planted my spring bulbs; my family is coming…
So Donald Trump isn’t the raging demon of our nightmares after-all. Or so we are meant to believe. Watching him at the meeting with President Obama at the White House yesterday, he looked like a school kid who’d won first…
BREXIT effigy from Lewes Bonfire 2016 First we are told that Parliament doesn’t need to decide Britain’s future over leaving the European Union and now we are informed that our High Court judges are the ‘enemies of the people’…
I’ve had a lot of fun with the new technologies that have revolutionised our lives over the last twenty years or so. I’ve recently been marking anniversaries (big ones) celebrating early online networking platforms and the strange virtual realities of…