Taylor Swift is conquering the world. Not the least of it, fans known as Swifties invaded a London pub in their multitudes to see the bar stool she once sat...
Eyes smile, they admonish, they smoulder, they moisten. The eyes show what’s going on behind them. Evasiveness and dishonesty, for starters. Leaders are lying, war mongers are mad and would...
Beyoncé isn’t coal black but in the way of many Americans she isn’t white either. It is election year over there and as far back as Richard Nixon country music...
Anglophiles among us will have been following the English tradition of the annual boat race between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge on the Thames. The river is so polluted...
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission plus a smattering of government freeloaders back from a trip to the Russian election have sworn voting was “free and fair and credible” and “a true...
In every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double/ Ain’t got no place to lay your head, somebody came and took your bed/ When you...
The bad news is that after years of neglect this is not being done as a public service. A summit meeting of heads of state and government is coming soon....
After my recent piece from chaotic, dispirited and decrepit Harare I dug out something I did for Skyhost, the Air Zimbabwe in-flight magazine 15 years ago when we still had...
As local legend has it, the hopeful young man takes roses to a girl on Valentine’s Day. Jeez, she cries, I can’t eat flowers! She would have preferred bread, maize...
Stanley Kubrick’s classic film comes to mind all these years later. It’s about psychotic leaders hurling us towards disaster in the Cold War era. In Kubrick’s script, how to love...
