Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
BACK in August 2015 I wrote in these Ramblings about the Loch Ness monster. Since then the mystery of what curious beast, if any, occupies the dark clouded waters of this most picturesque of Scotland’s many lochs continues. Nessie, as some called her, continued to hit the headlines.
Today virtually everyone carries a mobile phone with a good and easy-to-use camera so it comes as a bit of a puzzle why more pictures of the Loch Ness beast have not been captured.
Last month the beloved paper of Tory idiots — the Daily Telegraph — revisited the monster story by rehashing a story from 2007. This was that the beast of the Loch could actually be a giant frog or toad.
An old theory about what the Loch Ness monster could be really be has resurfaced — and it has taken social media by storm.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results



