Honour guard into hell

Rumsfeld surely has one of the more substantial honour guards into the afterlife with tens of thousands of Iraqis, Afghans and Pakistanis killed because of him. As Afghanistan teeters on the brink of America’s latest abandonment it’s hard not to remember that this man’s hands are covered with blood. I saw something on Twitter some […]

Struggling for a jab

We learned that we might well be eligible, or nearly eligible, for a vaccination here in Turkey, but had to go through a fairly long registration process. This entailed, first, going to the post office for a government website password to be texted to us, then return to the computer to register on the website, […]

A very long blink

The city has truly unfurled in the sun and with many lockdown restrictions gone. There is a different feel to the streets, it’s like there has been a very long blink, and what was before was Istanbul in September or October, and then there is now. There are many more people in the streets, there […]