‘What a drag it is getting old’: Biden and the limits of being 80
by Rashmee
Posted on January 8, 2022
“What a drag it is getting old,” the Rolling Stones once sang, and perhaps no …
Read MoreTurning the unvaccinated into modern-day lepers?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 7, 2022
On January 6, Italy made a coronavirus vaccination mandatory for everybody over the age of …
Read MoreYou’re…your: The problem with hybrid speech-text communication
by Rashmee
Posted on January 5, 2022
Call me a pedant, but I notice when Muck Rack writes “hoards” (of employees) rather …
Read MoreThree things to watch, four days into the new year
by Rashmee
Posted on January 4, 2022
A narcissist US president inciting a riot to stop a legitimate election result from being …
Read MorePepper soup and positive thinking
by Rashmee
Posted on January 3, 2022
It’s that time of year – people are thinking of pepper soup and positivity. There …
Read MoreThe world in 2022: more of the same?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 2, 2022
Pundits are doing their professional best to predict the course of the next 12 months …
Read MoreAnd a quiet Happy New Year 2022 to you
by Rashmee
Posted on January 1, 2022
The second New Year’s Eve of the pandemic was a lot like the first. In …
Read MoreDutch version of the East India Company was ‘the original military-industrial complex’
by Rashmee
Posted on December 31, 2021
Founded in 1602, just a couple of years after the English established the East India …
Read MoreAmsterdam, capital of sustainable capitalism?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 30, 2021
Four worthwhile facts about Amsterdam as 2021 closes itself out: ** it has a cap …
Read More21st century Britain: still the ’emancipated empire’?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 29, 2021
There appears to be an element of self-righteousness about British foreign secretary Liz Truss’s declaration …
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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