Since Saturday before last (and not including today or yesterday) I’ve brought 382 stories to your attention more or less, an average of 54 a day.
I think by any objective measure this is a lot of news.
Because of the volume it can be easy to overlook some important stories or trends and that’s why I’m considering posting a Week in Review piece every week (of which this is the first) to highlight things you may have missed.
Make no mistake, the HTML is more complicated than it looks which is why it didn’t publish on Saturday, but once having worked out the kinks I’m hopeful that it will become much easier to produce (or I’ll abandon it as ‘too much work’).
The other motivation for publishing this is that there is one story in particular this week that I wanted to highlight.
Do you remember Frederick Forsyth’s The Dogs of War?
(A) company of European mercenary soldiers (is) hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the African country of Zangaro.
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(T)hough fictional, the Central African ‘Republic of Zangaro’, is based upon Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony.
Actually, like me, it’s not fictional at all.
Sir James Manson is Sir Mark Thatcher, son of Maggie, and ‘Cat’ Shannon is Simon Mann and this week he was released from “Black Beach prison, one of the most notorious in Africa” where he has been held since the failed 2004 coup.
And he wants to chat about it.
Sir Mark and friends have been warned “that those who abandoned him in adversity – which may well include Thatcher – should brace themselves for ‘an ice axe between the eyes’.”
I’ve covered this and I’ll highlight it here above the fold to get you used to the format-
There is much, much more.
