Alcohol is having its tobacco moment. Young people are going off it, and a growing chorus...
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Author Archives: Gehan
A Digital Flâneur in Athens
A flâneur is an urban wanderer: someone who explores a city with no fixed destination, s...
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Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag
How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality.In...
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Marxists, Beards and Follies
Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is wha...
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Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason
First Published in May 2022.I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka...
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Algorithms and traditions – a Christmas story
I met a Thai woman called Sugarplum on the rooftop bar of the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo....
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Crazy Rich Asians in London
I would have been around 11 years old when I first flipped through my father’s day-old ...
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Farah Fawcett and the Tesla Cybertruck
I like cars but find it difficult to get excited about electric vehicles. They are alle...
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Burnt Rubber and Lost Shoes
He was late braking into the corner. Very late. Within seconds he made contac...
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The Spy Who Loved Me
He arrived in Sardinia by boat, having survived several assassination attempts. The agenc...
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A red rooster, a hooker and a cigar
The vintage Alfa Romeo had been sitting in my garage in Cape Town, collecting dust for tw...
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Drink your way through Christmas!
If you are looking for a reason to drink, the pandemic is an excellent one. As we despera...
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