1. Pandering to the furious right in Pakistan 2. Coronavirus raging in India, Turkey, Pakistan 3. US troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan 4. Dodgy dealings in Whitehall 5. Trial for the murder of George Floyd 6. Blood clots, vaccines and the pill 7. Volcano in St Vincent 8. Buildup on the Ukrainian border […]
Suspicious happenings in the English countryside
An elderly millionaire baronet has been found stabbed to death in his country house in Dorset. A suspect has been taken into custody driving furiously through Hammersmith. A four foot long rabbit – which is also suspiciously long-lived – has been stolen from its Worcestershire kennel, but a pet detective is hot on its trail. […]
Drums in the distance
It is the first of Ramazan and I am working late into the night. Outside, drums are playing and a man is chanting or singing to wake people for sehri. Distance is more alliterative than accurate, as he is standing under our window. It seems rather early to me, as it is not yet 2 […]
Glad to know
Glad to know there is always a patriarch. This is from today’s Guardian. Fuck me.
What I noticed
1. Unavoidably, Prince Philip died 2. Imran Khan digs in on jackassery 3. North Ireland, unsurprisingly, is not a happy place post-Brexit 4. More heartbreaking blasphemy accusations in Pakistan 5. Vaccine movements restricted 6. Myanmar ambassador locked out of his embassy 7. Infrastructure week happened in America again, but I was not really paying attention […]
Big news
You know the death of Prince Philip is big news when it displaces, in short order, from the top of the Guardian’s list of most viewed news articles both ‘Tui plane in “serious incident” after every “Miss” on board was assigned child’s weight’ and ‘A maggot hatched from my head’.
Waiting
This morning news came that the relative by marriage is not doing well. His organs are shutting down. His child sent me a heartbreaking voice message asking me to recite a prayer for him, holding his face and name in my mind. It is the prayer of Jonah in the belly of the whale, a […]
Fury at the manager
Daily Mail, 6 April 2021
What I noticed
1. Vaccine passports 2. Attack in Mozambique 3. Jordanian thises and thats 4. A man, his plan: a very long canal 5. The reason for rape according to Imran Khan (skimpy attire) 6. Myanmar deaths 7. More talk of vaccine nationalism 8. Train crash in Taiwan 9. Deaths among the tribesmen 10. Coronavirus horrors in […]
Sad news
The GF and I stepped out for an early spring stroll, on a pleasantly warm day, and stopped at the flat where they were busy plastering over the electrical wiring and the plumbing. It is really coming together beautifully and now, for the first time, I can imagine living in it. While I was there […]