World View

If Donald Trump were a religious man, he might have said "There but for the grace of God go I" when he heard that former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro had been sentenced to 27 years in prison.

There is no "New World Order", although there is certainly a new world disorder.

Two Africa-based advocacy groups, Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa, launched a "Change the Map" campaign in April.

It is like one of those slapstick comedies from the early days of silent films: the Keystone Cops movies, perhaps, or Buster Keaton’s various efforts.

"I love deadlines," Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, said.

The co-ordinated chorus of despair by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump and their various henchpersons and flacks was quite impressive.

I would rather eat worms than write about the current hullabaloo on the American right over the conspiracy theories about paedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his various pals and accomplices.

Start with China, the world’s biggest emitter by far of greenhouse gases: 27% of the entire world’s emissions, and more than twice that of the second-biggest emitter, the United States.

The whole business of succession would be a lot simpler if the Dalai Lama could just regenerate, like Doctor Who.

Leading an entire country for a few years is a steep learning curve, but it’s useful experience.