In October of 1962, the world appeared to be on the brink of annihilation. Nuclear war between world superpowers seemed imminent. My father remembers those days. He remembers the duck and cover drills. He remembers “make your own bomb shelter” schematics popping up in his comics. He remembers when the world really did appear to be ending. So I understand that he likes to be careful. “They” are all over the place trust me he knows all about them. And “they” appears to be a combination of Jeff Bezos telling Bill Gates to collect information on everyone and a NSA super plot to scan every word of every email ever published for dissenters.
Welsh gay men s choir share hilarious take on the reality of dating apps and it s just brilliant
The South Wales Gay Men s Chorus gave a musical insight into the world of dating for gay men in 2021
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An all gay men s chorus in Wales have released an video giving their take on gay dating in 2021.
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Why domestic tourism will carry Asian travel sector until Covid-19 pandemic ends Illustration: Craig Stephens
As Singapore enters a tighter phase of Covid-19 restrictions this weekend, the future of its travel bubble with Hong Kong has been thrown into limbo yet again. Under this arrangement, which was set to start on May 26 after a delay, travellers from these two financial hubs would have been exempted from quarantine.
It would have given a glimmer of hope to the rest of Asia that borders can be reopened safely. As yet, many borders remain closed and the prospect of travel remains uncertain.
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How the Myanmar coup and South China Sea disputes are deepening Asean’s irrelevance Illustration: Craig Stephens An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted, Arthur Miller once observed. In the same vein, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), a once promising regional organisation, is confronting its own moment of truth.
The raging civil war in Myanmar, and the festering disputes in the South China Sea, are cruelly exhausting the basic illusions of supposed Asean centrality in shaping the post-Cold-War order in Asia. Unless Asean rethinks its woefully dysfunctional decision-making structures, and develops decisive leaders in its ranks, the regional organisation will fade into irrelevance.
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‘Global’ Britain’s pretensions of relevance in Asia pale amid China’s rise Illustration: Craig Stephens
In a few months, a large Royal Navy flotilla will enter the South China Sea. Led by one of its new aircraft carriers, the tour is meant to demonstrate Britain s commitment to the region, coming soon after it became an Association of Southeast Asian Nations dialogue partner and applied to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
These actions are presented as evidence of the UK s renewed focus on the Indo-Pacific after its European Union exit; a geographic shift which reflects its desire to forge a broader political and economic destiny outside the EU.