Bound and Gagged
Images can be powerful. Don Mullan, Irish author and social justice campaigner, took this photograph of sculptures at the Red Cross Museum in Geneva representing prisoners of conscience. It captures…
In India it’s a Guy Thing!
The title above is a deliberately ironic comment on what is a serious issue. We all remember those movies about infanticide. The ones showing babies being plunged in tubs of…
Economic Implosion is bad news for world's Poorest
Well it’s official. The UN site, IRIN, posted a report from Dakar citing analyses and forecasts by UN economists on the likely impact of the downturn in the West on…
A Slow Spring
Geneva is limping towards Spring – cold chill rain, light snow, the trees still bare. But, in the pre-dawn dusk, the blackbirds have started to sing, softly; the magpies are…
Rebuilding the Global Financial System (GFS)
I am reliably informed that GPS car installations were the Christmas gift of choice in 2008. Every time I get lost on the A43 into Lyon I pine for one!…