I’m not sure why YouTube offered me a video of the Romanian AI singer Lolita Cercel as I left Romania 10 years ago and the YouTube algorithm knows my obsession: the slow-motion car crash of Russia destroying itself in Ukraine. (more…)
Category: Geopolitics
Donald Trump is untrammelled by reason, responsibility, reality or even grammar
An opinion by Gardner Molloy, the canny mason
The other day I heard Trump give one of his fabulously incoherent and contradictory press statements. Utterly untrammelled by reason, responsibility, reality or even grammar. Bearing no relationship to either conscience or consequence. A child, in a fireworks factory, determined to prove their competence at striking matches. (more…)
Why Can’t Iran Have a Nuclear Bomb?
An opinion by By Gardner Molloy, the canny mason
We live in a weaponised world where peace is supposedly assured by the crazy notion of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD). You can either buy into that concept or not.
To me it seems like primitive lunacy and a complete waste of resources. Most people insist I am being naive and seem to accept this perilous ’status quo’ as a necessary strategy. (more…)
Memories of East Berlin
East Berlin was controlled by the Russians until 1989. It no longer exists. I spent some time there many years ago, on my way to Asia. This is how I described it in my first travel book, 9 Months in Tibet. (more…)
Ukraine Can Learn From Bosnia’s Disastrous Peace Treaty
I first published this article in May 2022, just after the Russian Empire invaded Ukraine. I’m re-posting the article as the points I raised here are all still very relevant (not much has changed in the Ukraine War). (more…)