David Waywell: ‘The Daily Grind’
Cartoonist David Waywell on reading, thinking, and drawing. Drawing cartoons is easy, well, that’s what I’m often told by people who don’t draw them. Cartoons,…
April 2015
Guest Writer: Libya, Syria, Miliband, and the Blame Game..
Opportunism and hypocrisy were on display last week when Ed Miliband, the leader of the British Labour Party, in the midst of the general election…
Tribal Politics and Western Democracy…
Here is a local story from a small London borough which should be of interest to anyone, in any Western democracy, because it is a…
The W&Y Book Review – ‘The Abrupt Physics Of Dying’. A novel set in contemporary Yemen.
The W&Y believes that to understand a country it’s not enough just to read the factual reports about it, or hopefully visit the place, you…
Guest Writer: ‘Political Islam Is The Real Problem.’
Political Islam has tarnished Muslims and Islam to such an extent that the word “Muslim” is now synonymous with terrorism, misogyny and brutality. It is…
Simon Moores argues we are now in the 3rd Industrial Revolution.
Black leather jackets and jeans. A noisy army of young men on the streets of Istanbul, hawking and hustling on street corners, outside cafes and…
Globing The Map…
Anyone with an interest in international relations likes maps. Peter Bellerby loves them. He loves them so much he creates beautiful works of art out…
Hillary Through The Glass Ceiling?
The last time I looked more than half of the American electorate is …. whisper it…female. That is one reason, among many, why Hillary Clinton…
Guest Writer: Paul E. Hardisty
Novelist Paul Hardisty writes about Yemen; A country he knows and loves. Yemen: A Land Beautiful and Cursed My new novel, The Abrupt Physics of…
That’s A Good Deal?
Why the Iran Nuke Deal will wobble… At the beginning of the 1970’s TV western series ‘Alias Smith and Jones’, the outlaws Hannibal Heyes and…