Welcome to my new blog!

Or is it a “newsletter”? I’m going to go with “blog” because I’m not exactly sending you weekly news reports here. These are my unvarnished thoughts on the world we live in - covering international politics, trade, economics, national security, the whole gamut. They are thoughts that are (at least in my opinion) far too unconventional and provocative to make it to my more staid and formal columns in the world press (yes, too “unconventional” even for me).

I know what you’re going to say here: “Don’t you already rant about these things on Twitter?!” Yes, I do. But as a boring, nerdish guy with a penchant for using (too many) words, I finally grew tired of Twitter’s draconian character limit. I wanted to drone on for a bit more - perhaps a lot more - on some issues that I think I must explain at greater length.

I write this blog very differently from my other, more formal columns. Each of these weekly posts is going to be rather more informal (although, even as I type this, Grammarly tells me that my text sounds “formal”). They will contain issues that I’ve been musing over during the week that’s gone by. These issues are going to be very varied; I will definitely be jumping from country to country, and sometimes, they might not even be related to each other. But the idea is to give you a sneak peek into my subconscious, and what I’m pondering over during the week, even as I watch cricket or binge Netflix.

So, dive in and don’t forget to subscribe!