Spain agrees to take 629 migrants barred by Italy and refused by Malta
In breaking news, Spain has agreed to take 629 migrants, including more than 100 children, drifting in the Mediterranean. Italy’s new rightwing government has closed its ports to the migrants rescued by a German vessel in Libyan waters. ends intro The UNHCR says migrants aboard the rescue ship Aquarius are in distress, running out of […]
Italy makes Maltese cross over migrant standoff
Malta’s rejected an Italian demand that it accept a ship carrying 629 migrants after Italy closed its ports to the vessel. The unprecedented decision to bar the MV Aquarius from Italian harbours was taken by new Italian right-wing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini in line with an election pledge to take a tough line on migration. He […]
Just when you think Jo Nesbo cannot get any weirder….
“Midnight Sun” by Jo Nesbo I picked up Jo Nesbo to read an injured footballer- turned-rock-musician-turned-banker-turned- international-bestseller-writer. Which of these would one not want to be? His offbeat thriller set in the land of the midnight sun departs radically from the disciplined attention to detail associated with Nordic noir but does not disappoint. The relationship-adverse, […]
A prequel greedily presented as a sequel to an American classic
“Go Set A Watchman,” by Harper Lee With 20-20 hindsight, one see why reviewers had problems with this book which is a first draft of the Pullizer Prize winner’s classic “To Kill A Mockingbird”. It was dishonestly feted by the profit-driven publisher as a sequel. So this a story of Southern manners, iconoclasm and coming […]