1. A ship is stuck in the Suez canal. 2. Imran Khan has COVID, keeps chairing in-person meetings. 3. Lira and stockmarker jitters 4. Delhi nationalised. 5. The SNP vs Alba. 6. COVID in Pakistan, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico 7. Deaths in Myanmar. 8. Taiwan buzzed. 9. A mine in Balochistan. 10. A man, a plan, […]
Fury at Alba
The Herald on Sunday, 28 March 2021
Fury at the passport
Daily Mail, 26 March 2020
Never again, again
Never again will I do something this foolish – I refer to the work I wrote about yesterday. I was up late, and then started work before breakfast – not as early as I planned, but still before breakfast. Thank heavens for the time difference. I sent off what I had and was very plain […]
Fury at the courts
Daily Mail, 19 March 2021.
Fury at the government 2
Daily Mirror, 16 March 2020.
Fury at the police (cont.)
Daily Mirror, 15 March 2021. Financial Times, 15 March 2021.
Angry women
Both the countries for whom I have passports and some sense of allegiance continue to show where a woman’s place is. Pakistan, of course, remains the most hurtful and the most deadly. The Aurat March with its frankly anodyne slogan of ‘mera jism meri marzi’ – my body, my choice – in Pakistan ‘please don’t […]
Fury at the police
Morning Star, 13 March 2020.
Terrible people
The newspapers, the internet, all available social media and I daresay a good bit of English language television and radio as well is plastered with the Oprah interview with Prince Harry and Meghan. I gave in and watched the clip where Meghan reveals that a member of the royal family had muttered something about the […]