Our Pivotal Childhood Memories
My pivotal childhood memory It happened nearly seven decades ago, but I remember it so...
Should Russia and Israel be banned from everything?
The first time I recognized the boycott wars was the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. I...
How relevant is NATO at 75?
I was seriously wrong about NATO. I guess I wasn’t alone in dismissing NATO as...
It’s 2024 – but I went to sleep in 1980……
I went to sleep and woke up 54 years later. A couple of weeks before...
Why is our world on fire?
It is a common assumption that bad news works better than good news. Several scientific...
60 years of space travel – have we learnt anything?
Even though Britain was relatively late in having an astronaut blast into space, (1991), us...
Our voting system… broken?
Russia’s voting system… broken? Ha-ha! Let’s get to terms: Russia’s voting system is not broken. It is...
Which conspiracy theory annoys me the most?
I’ve always thought that a conspiracy theorist would have to be stupid and usually American....
The Year in Review
It seems that everyone does these Year in Review stories. We have done year in...
Are we doomed to repeat the past?
They say that history doesn’t repeat itself but rather goes spiral. I think this is...