October 9, 2025 ‘Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan’ Attributed to Count Ciano How very true. Thunderous self-congratulations echo over the temporary ceasefire in Gaza that many hope will end two years of massacre, kidnappings and war crimes in this open-air prison camp. President Donald Trump, hot […]
April 24, 2025 The world mourns Pope Francis, a good, loving man who brought the Holy Mother Church back to the people and made his native Argentina proud. Francis was a welcome change after the orthodoxy and rigidity of former Pope Benedict XVI who sent an icy chill through Catholicism. […]
February 14, 2025 Prince Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, hereditary Imam of the world’s 12-15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, died recently in Lisbon, Portugal. What a life he led. The Aga Khan (Great Khan as he was universally known) was born in Geneva, Switzerland and spent much of his flamboyant […]
