“Nothing’ll ever fix what’s broken in this town, but it would be nice if they’d at least get the dead bear out of the parking lot at Food Country”. “ The Holiday Inn Express on Richland Skyway seemed like as a good place as any for `Margaret Price to maybe, possibly, stick her finger up…
Unter den Linden crowd of 40, 000 chanted and cheered as books by Jews, homosexuals and communists were burned under bonfire on 10th May 1933. And six decades later Serbian forces on 25th August 1992, bombarded shells down with precision on Sarajevo’s National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Bombs were incendiaries designed…
Too many very clever people who are not very collaborative, in a room together could block the prospects with their love for complexity and conflict. What they have in their brainpower, lack in empathy. In our meritocracy IQ is valued much more highly than EQ (Emotional intelligence) or most physical ability. Political analyst David Goodhart…
Activists seeking to legalise cannabis in Israel dropped via a drone several hundreds of packets of the drug in Tel Aviv after they promised free marijuana on social media. Passers-by managed to collect a few of the bags before police arrived according to the Maariv News website. The footage showed people walking through busy traffic…
Eight gold bars seized from a passenger attempting to smuggle the treasures onto a flight by hiding them in a lunchbox are set to be auctioned on Thursday. The ingots weighed 35lbs (16kg) worth £75t0, 000- was seized in November 2018 at Manchester Airport by HMTRC officers. The airline passenger did not face prosecution…
The night sky in the UK will be dominated by the September Corn Moon, which will appear full for about three days from Monday evening through Thursday morning. The moon officially reached its peak at 6.22 am this morning but will continue to shine brightly in the sky this evening and Thursday evening as well.…
Annual rankings of global broadband speed based on 557 million tests conducted across 221 countries and compiled by Cable.co.uk showed it typically takes twice as long as to download a film in the UK than the average for Western Europe, as the UK has fallen 13 places to 47th, down from 34th a year ago.…
“SENSE – Unlock Your Senses and Improve Your Life” by Russell Jones. Published by Welbeck on 20 August 2020 £12.99 COALS TO NEWCASTLE FOR SOME, REMIND YOURSELVES OF HOW TO COUPLE UP AND HAVE FUN. Self help books have been season of the day for many moons now and this one is no exception. In…
Ngaba, a town on the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau, witnessed a Buddhist Monk dousing himself in gasoline and set himself on fire, after calling out for the return of Dalai Lama from exile in India. Since then 156 Tibetans have self- immolated. While some have wrapped themselves in quilts and wire others drank…
C Conway, a former British Army officer, now working for the HALO trust, a mine-clearing charity, details about the working of mines and explosives and how to deploy them when defending a fortified position. Conway displays his real life experience de-mining war zones to excellent use, as the narrative goes from Assad’s dungeons in Syria…