Resurrection after Six Years in KSA
Just over a year ago, I promised that "whatever happens" I had already written my final Saudi Season blog post and would never write another one. Perhaps promises are meant to be broken. Also, who could have ever predicted that the world would swerve in such a dramatic fashion in 2020 that life might never be quite the same again? I guess that's why I'm sitting here in Saudi Arabia resurrecting this blog. These are unprecedented times and it feels like the right season to put a few of my thoughts down online to look back on in years to come. If, of course, the world even has a few years to come. At the beginning of 2020, the world seemed relatively sane. President Trump was happily tweeting in his bed eating McDonalds. Boris Johnson, after winning a comfortable majority in the UK Parliament, claimed he was the man to deliver the will of the British people: Brexit. A few bushfires raged uncontrollably in Australia. And China innocently reported the first death from ...