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Disease without symptoms. We dont yet have a test to tell how many people are infected and just have nothing at all. Meanwhile 254 people die from coronavirus in china on the deadliest day of the outbreak so far. And more than a0 more cases are confirmed on the diamond princess cruise ship currently moored off japan. The city watchdog investigates past links between the boss of Barclays Bank and the sex offenderjeffrey epstein. Criminal gangs are blamed for a big increase in fly tipping across e...

Bauhaus Staircase a new album is  out now by  synth pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD)Listen to the work on the Spotify link  https://open.spotify.com/album/0xSrkb9KazehS74ki0ylf2?si=aqN93ZSnTsq8QWbDtRZcmQ And next week the band tour  South Africa  with dates is  Cape Town and Joburg as part of the ‘Greatest Hits Tour’.  Thursday, 18 April 2024 - Green Point A-Track, Green Point, Cape…

Coke Studio is bringing music closer to fans in the real world through a partnership with the Hey Neighbour Music Festival, a one-of-a-kind, three-day music festival in Mzansi...

After the recent announcement of their  new studio album, Bauhaus Staircase out now  synth pioneers Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) reveal details of their return to the stage, with the band taking to the globe next year with South Africa tour dates in toe. Across February & March 2024, OMD will play 22 dates across the…

Critics like to tussle over the wartime PM’s legacy, but Sinclair McKay's pithy new biography Meeting Churchill embraces his contradictions

The Secret Listeners: How the Y Service Intercepted the Secret German Codes for Bletchley Park by McKay, Sinclair at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  1531843611 - ISBN 13:  9781531843618 - Audible Studios on Brilliance audio - 2016

History is playing out before our eyes - thats why this very current book on Ukraines struggle against Putins Russia tops my History list.

Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World, by Sinclair McKay (St. Martin’s Press, 464 pp., $29.99) I first visited West Germany as a student, during the height of the Cold War, but I didn’t make it to Berlin until shortly after the Wall came down. In fact, when I […]

Berlin: Life and Loss in the City That Shaped the Century

Any period of Berlins turbulent history makes for a compelling story, but right now - with the Russians attempting to crush Ukraine - none seems more poignant than those final few weeks.