India, Italy, Saudi, Colombia, Ethiopia haven’t had a US ambassador for a year or more
by Rashmee
Posted on January 27, 2023
Shashi Tharoor, an Indian politician and former United Nations diplomat, recently fulminated on the Biden …
Read MoreThe tanks-to-Ukraine story is not about America’s 31 Abrams, but its heart
by Rashmee
Posted on January 26, 2023
On Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s birthday, America announced a big present. Not the 31 M1 …
Read MoreIf Davos didn’t exist, would we have to invent it…as an email?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 22, 2023
“Has there ever been a ‘meeting that should have been an email’ so glaring as …
Read MoreStay-aways from the magic mountain
by Rashmee
Posted on January 17, 2023
Various media outlets have thrown out the names of those they espy – or don’t …
Read MoreWhen WWI wasn’t WWI: language and change as the old year dies
by Rashmee
Posted on December 26, 2022
As the old year dies away, the persistent thought is of change and renewal. I …
Read MoreThe poinsettia is soprano in the season’s grand opera
by Rashmee
Posted on December 22, 2022
Come Christmas, the most festive houseplant of them all lights up hallways, dinner tables and …
Read More’42 per cent of Africa’s 130 players at Qatar were born outside the continent’
by Rashmee
Posted on December 5, 2022
More than half the 26 players in Morocco’s national football team are born in other …
Read MoreFootballers often ask themselves: Where am I really from?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 4, 2022
The BBC World Service documentary ‘Which country should I play for?’ tells an …
Read MoreBritain’s three ‘Ds’: Deindustrialisation, degrowth, denigration of outsiders
by Rashmee
Posted on December 2, 2022
What happened when Britain chose a post-World War II path that focussed on the frothy …
Read MoreThere are some very real symptoms of Britain’s slow slide downwards
by Rashmee
Posted on December 1, 2022
Any consideration of Britain’s place in the world today (as well as the so-called “saviour …
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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