Posts by Angus Shaw
Why we never win the lottery
More chance of seeing Elvis in the local supermarket, more chance of getting shot dead in a random drive-by. More chance of stumbling across an unpublished Ernest Hemingway manuscript, an undiscovered Picasso…
Read MoreWell, well, Mr Kissinger…
Well, well, Mr Kissinger. The outlook might have looked different in 1974. Dire economic hardships persist in the developing world. Poor, inadequate harvests are again forecast in Zimbabwe this year. Many families will go to bed hungry. Most will trudge on through hard times with heavy footsteps. (New Zimbabwean flip-flops graphic courtesy ehudnamboyo)
Read MoreThe shocking truth about the Euro
Shock, horror. The euro has now fallen well below the U.S. dollar. A chocolate euro now costs more than the real coin is worth. As Zimbabwe abandoned the local dollar and went over to the multi-currency system in 2009, the euro became legal tender. But shops don’t want it, they don’t see it often, the…
Read MoreBringing out our dead
Unless a demented co-pilot plunges his Airbus into the French alps with the loss of all on board, or Jihadists decapitate or burn alive their captives, we seldom reflect on news reports of horrific death. For most people, if they see a body at all, it is of a dog run over by a car…
Read MoreConsequences of loss
I became acquainted with loss at an early age. Both my parents died when I was a child, my mother before my father. My father had once forgotten to collect me from the infants’ boarding school where I had been sent at the age of five. Six decades later – three decades after independence –…
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