Sitemap - 2023 - This Week, Those Books
Holiday spirit sweeps the whole world
In the little town of Bethlehem, they grieve
Europe debates its destiny – and Ukraine
Happy 75th, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
COP28: Getting the climate party started
LA Auto Show and the future of cars
Migrants are in the spotlight, again
Abortion is in focus around the world
The state of Turkey, 100 years on
Disney at 100: Mickey and multiculturalism
Israel-Palestine: Tears and fears
Armenian exodus and the pains of history
India-Canada row: Risks of dissent
What to know about Fashion Week 2023
Asean, G20: Summits are peak diplomacy
Women's football: Girl power summer
Saving the Amazon rainforest, 'Earth's lungs'
Is the world's green consensus going dark?
Russia-Africa summit and blood bonds
Oppenheimer's dharma and the atomic bomb
Fireworks in France: Bastille Day and riots
Get smarter, faster about America’s 247th birthday
What to know about Russia, revolts and 1917
Ecocide and Cormac McCarthy’s words
What to know about 'dictator chic'
Indian food's poor representation among American restaurants is not a malaise
50 years on, Madhur Jaffrey's Indian cookbook is useful metric for America
Degrowth: What On Earth Is That?
John Wayne's film, The Alamo, was vital to the myths about Texas
Slutty vegans in the land of big beef
No better way than the train to see America the beautiful
Biden administration gives $570 m to rail crossing safety projects
'Amtrak Joe', Pete Buttigieg and America's train revolution
'Amtrak Joe' will propel America's trains into the 21st century
America's train network is preparing for a high-speed future
Southwest Chief, Texas Eagle, Sunset Limited…American trains are grand
Decolonising the Alamo narrative is long overdue
Should we remember the Alamo and just forget the myths?
Glorious myths about the Alamo 'sacred shine' draw millions every year
Why BoJo’s Dallas dinner with Trump didn’t make the NYT
Texas attorney general is no lone star despite legal woes
'Please check you don't have a firearm in your carry-on'
Marketing UFOs and mysteries in New Mexico
Aliens, flying saucers and a spaceport in New Mexico
Haunted trails through the American southwest
Seasons greetings: It's always 'Christmas' in Santa Fe
In Santa Fe, 'Christmas' means red and green chiles
Alert for undocumented migrants in northern Arizona
Overland Expo 2023 has Flagstaff, Arizona buzzing
Food and nurturing on Taos Pueblo: A photo diary
Taos Pueblo’s new church still throbs with old colonial traumas
In Taos Pueblo, the future fuses with the past
In Taos Pueblo, 1000-year-old mud houses with propane and mobile wifi
GUEST POST: Macron's zombie Gaullism
Native wisdom: The North American Indian
Prepping for the American southwest
Newly bold talk about republicanism and reparations
Are Indians still obsessed with the Raj?
Right royal tamasha: New season of the Crown begins
'Indian nationalists are still obsessed with the Raj'
Coronation countdown II: Look who’s celebrating
Coronation countdown: Patriotism or the profit motive?
France's old world view of work may be very new age-y. Or not...
Shouldn't the French get with the script?
GUEST POST: Macron's May Day blues
In the garden, shakkei 'borrows scenery' to frame, as would a photographer
The reason Ron DeSantis bangs his not very big drum on the big world stage
'We are not amused', India on Der Spiegel's cartoon of world's most populous nation
Is Joe Biden's choice of Kamala Harris a tick-the-box exercise?
Ukraine war: Talks can't aim to solve everything, everywhere all at once
Elon Musk's exquisite parody of impartiality?
Expert opinion from Japan on the 'Indian century'
For the West, the 'Indian century' may have already begun
What's your bet the EU will be in good shape on Jan 1, 2028?
Remind me again, what was the point of Joe Biden visiting Northern Ireland?
What's Hindi cinema's attitude to old age?
Hollywood is not obsessed with the elderly and dying…yet
GUEST POST: Why French cinema is fascinated with dying
What the Jack Teixeira intelligence leaks say about the state of American society
Psst...we're joining even more dots
Racism and the ugliness of Britain's increasingly diverse politics
Ukraine war re-positions ‘the heart of Europe’ more eastwards…in Poland
How to boost a neighbourhood, simply but radically
20 years on, the false narrative of the Firdos Square Saddam statue toppling
As Trump was arraigned, a strange thing seemed to happen to Marjorie Taylor Greene
Sunak, in potholed northeast England, illustrates theory and practice of political change
Nitrous oxide ban: What the Dutch do in January, the Brits do in March
What happened in Manhattan was not a patch on events in the Midwest
Sanna Marin, Finland's international star and Northern Light, dims
Folk traditions are back, with bells on
Trump indictment and the problem with journalists writing for the history books
Rishi Sunak's Goldilocks migration strategy: 'Stop the boats' and 'start the legal' passage
'Indian' & 'Pakistani' walk into Brit high offices…What happens?
When Britain's King visited, Germany fondly recalled he's 'half German'
Humza Yousaf: 'Like a leader created by ChatGPT'
Let's not pooh pooh Utah laws that help parents keep their children safe online
This is not a photo but AI can pretend it is as it's now learnt to draw human hands
'Global China' conceit is only possible because of America's rising inability to do diplomacy
20 years on from war, a ground view of 'Iraq's first free and fair election'
Rahul Gandhi is a horsefly bite on the flank of the Modi's India
Do I get brownie or greenie points for starting small in the garden?
Rwanda: 'Beacon of hope' for Britain's Suella Braverman, if not for the migrants she deports
Britain is short of eggs, fresh veg…and news about the shortage
Laura Trevelyan and the gathering momentum for reparations
Diversity and Anglosphere: Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman run a familiar show
Eurocentricism and the AI video Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt made
The blog-oconomy and Joining the Dots: 11 years in a turning world
Barbados may give energy to reparations case
Think of war-torn Yemen and cheer China-brokered deal between Saudi and Iran
Two linguistics professors & an AI company head walk into a bar…
Reclaiming the streets from the 'horseless carriage' Benz built
Seeing the back of the Automobile Age
The car has had a good run from the first 'horseless carriage' to the Automobile Age
Stop worrying so much. ChatGPT won't make us writers irrelevant…yet
India too, like the US, makes distastefully pragmatic policy choices
Brexit Britain: Grow-your-own-salad country Vs start-up nation
For ex-colonisers, those diamonds are, finally, not forever
Hope: A story of Ukrainian jugaad on war's first anniversary
'Dear Rishi'. Code words and cliches of British politics
Two Ukrainian women provide a lesson in the moral psychology of hope
'War and forgetting': Could Ukraine ever fall as much out of focus as Syria?
New tales of the South Pacific: Vanuatu's fight for climate justice
In Britain, let us root around for a salad
Right now, it's hard to rely on apps that claim to detect ChatGPT writing
One of the most accessible climate data maps possible just popped into my inbox
AI, your (overly) helpful, slightly batty editor?
Even some conservatives aren't buying Ron DeSantis's 'Florida blueprint' for America
Nicola Sturgeon's 'Jacinda Ardern moment'?
Heard about bot love? Bing, the homebreaker, turns it on its head
Nikki Haley: 'Proud daughter of Indian immigrants - not Black, not white…different'
Catastrophe Vs conflict: Turkey & Syria, one week on. Ukraine, nearly one year in
Metric of misery: Turkey & Syria, one week on. Ukraine, nearly one year in
The first Leopard tank arrived in Kyiv in a blizzard of rumours about graft
Yet another trigger warning…but just how troubling can Jane Austen be?
Row at Georgian khinkali stall in London brings home the ugliness of a faraway war
Are you ready for Boiled Raisin Cake as the Ukraine war drags on?
'How about ChatGPT writing a new Northern Ireland protocol?'
So Boris Johnson's comeback trail, like that of Liz Truss, runs through Washington, DC?
The AI bubble is like the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s
Truss, who lost longevity battle to a lettuce, is on comeback trail through Washington, DC?
The logic of 'Brides of India' tourism tat
On his 75th death anniversary, the Mahatma as a marketing tool
India, Italy, Saudi, Colombia, Ethiopia haven't had a US ambassador for a year or more
The tanks-to-Ukraine story is not about America's 31 Abrams, but its heart
Mission Impossible for India's new Bond-style film to reset the country's political plot?
The egg-spensive scramble and what it says about our interconnected world
‘Heard the one about the Indian farmer and the AI bot?’ Microsoft’s Nadella told the story at Davos
If Davos didn't exist, would we have to invent it…as an email?
Davos trivia: One very dapper Bhutto, 3 Asian VIPs and an immortal WEF founder
Is Jacinda Ardern's short sharp goodbye a template or a telling sign of the times?
Jacinda Ardern's way of saying goodbye is as brusque as her plan for departure
Will Dr Clever Clogs, otherwise known as ChatGPT, be at Davos 2024?
'Davos is WEF…ie World Economic Failure'
Prince Harry, the conversational gambit for Everyman's dinner
AI magic: Turner painting of a 21st century Greenwich neighbourhood
Can this ChatGPT detector unerringly spot robotic idioms?
How to beat AI - for dummies. Hint: learn a craft
ChatGPT isn't Keats & won't reinvent the sonnet like Terrance Hayes…and that's fine
Light starts to dim on the oldie goldies' era of American politics
'Write a blog about the status of ChatGPT'
If insurrections were coffee, the barista would say Brazil had a January 6 Grande
Bolsonaro's behaviour throws a more flattering light on Trump…that's how bad it was
At Lula's inauguration, did Bolsonaro 'eat the last cannibal'?
2022 was cruel but there are reasons to be cheerful about 2023
The 2023 election calendar has some big ones
Sunak made history but UK's stature's getting unmade
Ightham Mote, one of Kent's 21 unpronounceable places
How Oxleas Woods became a 'line in the sand' for the environmental movement