Time for a British version of Andy Borowitz’s ‘Profiles in Ignorance’?
by Rashmee
Posted on September 30, 2022
Faced with Kamikwasi Kwarteng and Librium Liz, respectively chancellor and prime minister of Britain …
Read More‘Librium Liz’ has been doing a good job of sending herself up
by Rashmee
Posted on September 29, 2022
When I heard Liz Truss, Britain’s prime minister for barely three weeks, on the radio …
Read MoreKamikwasi, Librium Liz: The great British joke factory
by Rashmee
Posted on September 28, 2022
The British joke factory runs on politicians’ blindness to their comedic aspects. Kamikwasi Kwarteng and …
Read MoreItaly’s new PM busts a myth about ‘caring’ women leaders
by Rashmee
Posted on September 27, 2022 / The Times of India
Italy’s general election will likely result in its first woman PM. And she shows no …
Read MoreWhy the United Nations has been reduced to a technical support role
by Rashmee
Posted on September 26, 2022
There’s lots to say about the excellent interview that Quartz did with former UN deputy …
Read MorePM of the Uneasy Kingdom: Liz Truss’s boosterism won’t help a Britain that matters less globally & is crisis-hit at home
by Rashmee
Posted on September 25, 2022 / The Times of India
This remains hideously relevant despite being originally published a couple weeks ago, when Liz Truss …
Read MoreBack to the other Liz’s world. Shtum, imperious, foxy
by Rashmee
Posted on September 24, 2022
In all the days that the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II lay in state in …
Read MoreKen Starr and the cult of the whiskey priest
by Rashmee
Posted on September 23, 2022
Had Somerset Maugham known Ken Starr he would probably have written a short story that …
Read MoreWe should pay attention to Ken Starr’s passing. He was a prototype for Maugham’s ‘whiskey priest’
by Rashmee
Posted on September 22, 2022
In the blitz of royal coverage from Britain, there has been little attention paid to …
Read MoreHow and why Britain’s greatest inventions of royal ritual and pageantry came about
by Rashmee
Posted on September 21, 2022
Historian David Cannadine begins his chapter in ‘The Invention of Tradition’, the 1983 …
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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