Hippie, happy Kabul
During the 1962-75 period Kabul was one of the main outposts of the hippie movement. The other was Nepal (Kathmandu). This statement is not of the “Ripley’s Believe it or…
Does power corrupt?
In the mid-nineteenth century Lord Acton first introduced the well-known dictum, ‘power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely’. For over a century this was accepted as the gospel…
