Mounting rage

There is certainly mounting rage about this football super league business, I can’t imagine they’ll go through with it. It was a busy working day – started before nine and I had my head down till past 10. A strange and terrible leak started up in the ceiling of the bathroom and has splattered everywhere, […]

Return to the city

Today was our return. In the morning, after breakfast, we took another short walk, in a different direction, but this was mostly over roads katcha and pakka. Along the way we chatted about the potential downfall of global capitalism as sparked by the top football clubs in Europe deciding to form a mini-league of their […]

What I noticed

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 US troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan 4.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 […]

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 […]

Scattered head

I’m back to work today, and am certainly struggling. It doesn’t help that after a couple of days off, the work is both considerable and immensely tedious. My head feels scattered, and I am unable to concentrate on anything much. The relative by marriage in Pakistan is not doing well at all. It’s even odds, […]

Heartbreaking

A heartbreaking article, and full of controlled fury, in the New York Times. It is about the 2019 outbreak of HIV in a rural part of Sindh, where hundreds of children were (and continue to be) diagnosed. One of the better piece I’ve read in a while of this sort, as it links together societal […]