Trouble & Squeak

  • An Expat’s Life in Kathmandu

    And now, the end is near, and so I face my final curtain… For the first five-months of 2017, I was living and working in Nepal. Patan to be exact. One of the three historical cities in Kathmandu valley that now make up what many people simply refer to as Kathmandu. Life here is different.…

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  • On Life, Death, and Living the Dash

    I can see why people turn to religion. Not those who have been brought up religious, as I believe that is indoctrination, but those who were never religious in the first place and choose to follow one of the many Gods that have been created. It is the desire for meaning. The wish to have,and…

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  • The View From The Roof Of The World: Observations From Five Days In Chinese Occupied Tibet

    In February 2017, I had the privilege of being able to visit Lhasa, the capital of Tibet – or the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, as the Chinese have called it. At an altitude of approximately 3,500 metres, it is one of the highest cities in the world, and takes some getting used to…

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  • Viva La Revolucion – Cuba’s Growing Tattoo Scene

    A few months before the death of their revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, I was able to visit the island of Cuba with a friend. The idea was to experience the country, with its communist history and anti-West tendencies, before globalisation and capitalism changed it forever.

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  • Evolve or Die: Which Political Ideology Can Bring Us The Future?

    Karl Marx believed that capitalism contained the seeds of its own destruction, and whilst we are yet to see whether this is true or not, it is clear that our rigid political ideologies are certainly the cause of their own downfall. Despite its best efforts, Communism was unable to stem the rising tide of wealth,…

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