The Karakoram Highway Flood
27 December 2012 | Transport
▲ Cruising the Karakoram Highway
When Maureen and I travelled up the Karakoram Highway through northern Pakistan into China in September we had periodic delays and stoppages. A couple of landslides blocked the road, there were political protests because of that ‘...
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My New Terrorist Watch
19 December 2012 | Living
I’m old enough to still like having a watch on my wrist, although I do look at my phone when I want to know what time it is somewhere else. Is the UK 9 hours behind or 11?
Earlier this year I dropped in to the watch museum at Glasshütte in the once-upon-a-time East...
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Flying under the Bridge
18 December 2012 | Living
Last week I had dinner at Melbourne University with assorted people involved in the media, journalism and publishing in Australia and the guest of honour Lord Justice Leveson. Sir Brian Leveon was in Australia to deliver lectures on his recently completed report into ...
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The Amandine – a Belgian Trawler
17 December 2012 | Places
My recent visit to Belgium was in pursuit of King Leopold II’s Belgian Congo connections in Brussels and Ostend. I was only a few steps out of the Ostend train station when I came upon the Amandine, the last Ostend fishing trawler to operate in Icelandic waters. L...
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The USA & Guns & Fairy Tales
16 December 2012 | Living
A weird relationship isn’t it? Underlined yet again by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut. The USA gun illustration is on the wall at the front of the ex-US Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
I live part of the year in Australia (annual deaths by guns...
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