‘From near-death to paternity’? Surely the sequence must’ve been different for Boris Johnson?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 30, 2020
In the span of just a few weeks, British prime minister Boris Johnson has used …
Read MoreBarclays CEO: A man who doesn’t see the future but is able to recognise when it is upon us
by Rashmee
Posted on April 29, 2020
I’m starting to wonder if the CEO of Barclays Bank is an exceedingly unusual man …
Read MoreThe ‘new normal’ is pretty abnormal
by Rashmee
Posted on April 28, 2020
New week, “new normal”. And it’s going to be pretty weird in many parts of …
Read MoreTrump’s crackpot medical advice has a precedent. Yahya Jammeh’s Aids ‘cure’ in The Gambia
by Rashmee
Posted on April 27, 2020
In January 2007, Yahya Jammeh, president of The Gambia, announced that he had a cure …
Read MoreTrump’s immigration ban is troubling but not as much as his fulminations on mosques
by Rashmee
Posted on April 26, 2020 / The Arab Weekly
Pitching mosques into the febrile atmosphere of a world shut down by a pandemic merely …
Read MoreThere was something mediaeval in Trump’s use of the word ‘cleaning’
by Rashmee
Posted on April 25, 2020
Donald Trump’s use of the White House megaphone to float the idea of injecting a …
Read MoreTrump and disinfectant injections: Ancient leaders too bumbled their response to the plague
by Rashmee
Posted on April 24, 2020
When I heard Donald Trump suggest that people could be cured by having injections of …
Read MoreFrom George W. Bush’s propensity to read books came the US policy of social distancing
by Rashmee
Posted on April 23, 2020
I didn’t realise that George W. Bush read books. The fact that he did matters, …
Read MoreThe sheer, mind-numbing pointlessness of Donald Trump and his immigration order
by Rashmee
Posted on April 22, 2020
On Tuesday (April 21) Donald Trump announced that he would issue an executive order to …
Read MoreWith the pandemic as priority, countries will have to hold off on defence spending
by Rashmee
Posted on April 21, 2020 / The National
Predictions, as the American baseball player Yogi Berra once said, are hard, especially about the …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK