CASABLANCA, LIGHT & RESTLENESS
I’ve been returning to Morocco a few times across 25 years, but Casablanca keeps calling me back — a city that
never pretends to be
THAILAND 2026
Following my recent post on Malaysia’s 2026 outlook, (the “Garibaldi Talk” you can read here), another good friend challenged me to share a similar
LOUVRE DIPLOMACY
Back home, in the “Land of Sand Castles”, and from my window I can see a silver/grey dome, on the edge of Saadiyat Island.
FRAGRANT HARBOUR
Hong Kong now looks unlike itself. Once celebrated as a freewheeling meeting place of East and West, its skyline still gleams, but its public sphere
THE INK ENDURES
In an era when words flicker across glass screens and
thumbs
dictate more than hands ever wrote, one might assume the fountain pen to have