Archive for November 2022

You can buy false bookshelves these days by the metre in length. Commentators and experts being interviewed on TV or Zoom and stuff almost always have books behind them to impress viewers. What happened here? Chris Wilkins doesn’t seem to worry if he appears not to be a bookworm or he hasn’t got around to…

With all that’s going on in the world today, it might be time to look at peculiarities, the off-beat and the humour prevailing in past and present times. Exactly 50 years ago Ugandan dictator Idi Amin expelled tens of thousands of Asians from the country. They were bloodsuckers in the economy, according to him. As…

  Smoking very bad. War very bad. The Great Plague very bad. Most things very bad in the olden days. It’s different now! In Afghanistan, starving children are sold to traffickers or given tranquilisers to dull their hunger pangs. Very bad. There is medication for hunger, it’s called food. For a plethora of reasons, food…

So it’s just two years since our playboy ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure died in his Rolls Royce on the way home from all night revelling and drinking at his now closed Harare nightclub. Quite where his ostentatious lifestyle came from is mired in mystery. Squabbles persist over who gets his mansion, his undamaged mega cars and any…

Former British envoy to Zimbabwe Deborah Bronnert, now ambassador in Moscow, is summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry over British involvement in Ukraine. Maria Zhakarova, one of Putin’s main spokespeople, alleges that the Royal Navy masterminded, and its special forces assisted in, “terrorist” drone and missile attacks by Ukraine on the Russian fleet in the…