Author: Londonbear

Although you might have missed it, two reports were issued by the UN today ahead of the upcoming meeting of the General Assembly. One has received huge publicity because of some disgraceful corruption by a few officials at the...

I posted this after midnight BST on Kos but then got a sniffy response merely remarking that I was over the 1 diary a day limit. That site seems to work on PST but as this information will I hope prove a resource, if only one of...

Their plight must by now be obvious to the good people who currently occupy French Loisianna. Their part of the world, since desperate financial problems forced the Republic to sell the remaining parts of French North America to...

I will try to broach this as carefully as possible but there is no easy way. I do a bit of informal counselling of a alcohol/substance abuser (long story resulting from childhood abuse). He informs me that New Orleans is well...

Something strange appears to be happening. I was going to post about a report of the suspension of oil exports from the Kirkuk oil fields today. The report is now no longer on the list of stories on the phone site which I...