I created the “Connecting the Dots” blog site to investigate and interpret a global range of topics from an international, and personally quirky, perspective.
My topics in “Connecting the Dots” include politics, the environment, fun issues, social issues and anything else that catches my attention. I hope you enjoy them, and will join me through your comments.
I inaugurated the “GOLDEN FLEECE AWARD” some time ago, which rewards the most stupid, inept, criminal and just plain dumb activities of public officials and others, everywhere. I have now added another award, the “GOLDEN EAGLE AWARD”, which celebrates remarkably positive activities of public officials and others. I would appreciate your help in identifying great examples of both.
In case we forget. As we endure the deluge of changes that Donald Trump is inflicting on us on an hourly basis, we have to …
An ancient Greek supercomputer sounds a little unlikely to put it mildly, but a discovery in a 2000-year-old shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in …
In many opinions the transcript of this speech by Claude Malhuret speaking to the French Senate on Tuesday March 4, 2025, will live forever in …
Three people sat the first Cambridge English exam in 1913. It is now taken by more than a million people a year all around the …
Italian cuisine may be one of the most recognised and loved in the world. It is often imagined as a collection of ancient recipes and …
I thought that this letter from the Former President of Poland, Lech Walesa, to Donald Trump was worth publishing in its entirety. I can’t vouch …
The advent of drone warfare as a major part of the Ukraine war with Russia has turned modern conflict, and the weapons we have traditionally …
The level of textile waste in the world is truly staggering; 85% of the 100 billion items of apparel produced by the textile industry EACH …
We need “sacrificial lambs”. I have to comment on the fiasco that occurred in the Oval Office of the White House during the visit …
I came across the photo of a Concorde and a Spitfire, above, and perhaps for the first time, was awestruck by the speed of technological …
