How do you cook an elephant? With some difficulty. And how’s the cooked hippo?

by Angus Shaw · 18 March 2015

Bejesus, let there be light

(Dateline Harare) How does it feel when extreme weather events cut off electricity to a few million households though it...

So, it’s boring as fuck. Sorry for that. Very few hits on my last story. We’ve slipped right off the...

Even in these far reaches of the globe it is impossible to escape from the noise of those damned elections...

We tried washing grimy notes in gentle soap suds and warm water. Then a machine cycle took 45 minutes and...

They all do it. They deliver a state of the nation address (SONA) to legislatures, painting a rosy picture of...

Ask any economist. Trickle down from wealth at the top is a fine theory but where and when does it...

Harare, Zimbabwe. Our admiration for Chairman Mao, architect of China's Cultural Revolution from 1949 to 1976, is boundless. We have...

China, the master of rail and bullet trains, has offered to step in and fix it. Don’t hold your breath....

Putin is our pal. As is Xi Jinping. So is the Supreme Leader in the crucible of radical fundamentalism, Iran....

It's like popcorn. Hot it up, it gloriously shows itself and then it's gone before the end of the movie....