When the Twain Meet!
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https://ameu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/vol59_issue1_2026.pdf
Live from New York:
It’s Complex Algorithms and Simple Equations
Why would people vote
against personable and
plausible candidates
As news oozed of the latest Trump Triumph on Greenland, I watched with shock and awe how many news outlets relayed the Walrus's proclamation of victory. They were somewhat reserved but none of them could produce a single achievement in the US position that was not already there under existing treaties and understandings.
Xi who must be obeyed, Versus he who would not understand the orders!
I mostly want to post bright,original stuff - by myself! :).
I attach below a version of a piece commissioned by the London Review of Books in the aftermath of 9-11 The editor spiked it and instead published a piece by one of his friends, who was reacting sensitively, of course, to events from 20 miles up the Hudson. It was, I suppose, good to see that friendship still counted for something!
A Tariff on Foreign Perspectives
https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/us-plans-to-restrict-foreign-journalists...
Everybody's favourite Nobel Prize had to move to Zurich. They should have offered Trump the IgNobel Peace prize he so richly deserves!
https://www.science.org/content/article/ig-nobel-hosts-science-s-sillies...
Me as FPA President Editorial for FPA Newsletter.
New Visa Requirements threaten Our Members
The Foreign Press Association was born in New York at the end of the First World War, and
also stuck around for the Second. Its members have chronicled epidemics, depressions and
recessions, witnessed the birth of radio, TV - and the Internet. However now there is an
impending "Perfect Storm," putting in doubt our raison d’ être. If the foreign press are not