ANDREA PLATE WRITES – Let us all breathe a sigh of relief. Tuesday’s U.S. Senate confirmation hearings (July 30) into the matter of Air Force General John Early Hyten’s fitness to serve as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was not a #MeToo mobbing – thanks to Martha…
EDITOR’S NOTE: Probably the most inclusive and sophisticated weekly take on global political trends (not just Asia’s) appears regularly in WORLD POST (http://www.theworldpost.com) under the pen of Nathan Gardels, one of America’s best informed and most sophisticated global commentators. Here, for example, is his take for the weekend of 5-6…
FROM THE BRITISH WEEKLY MAGAZINE THE SPECTATOR, SIMON COURTAULD WRITES – Alexander Chancellor’s ‘Long Life’ is over; but it was not nearly long enough. I was feeling rather gloomy last Friday, having just had our old terrier put down, when I opened The Spectator and was immediately cheered up by…
