This Friday's "blog of the week" comment comes from Middle East journalist and openDemocracy contributor Thomas O'Dwyer, who is also a country risk analyst with GlobalSource.
Two blogs have recently claimed my interest. For foreign-based news hounds, following events in the UK and Ireland used to mean keeping an ear tuned to the BBC World Service. No more, not with Adam Boulton's Weblog online. His fine, information-packed writing elegantly complements the familiar gift of the insightful gab from this ace Sky News political journalist. Next, who isn't intrigued about growing old, as we all, hopefully, have to? One guy who's cheerfully there already is Pete Lustig, an e-marketing manager, aged 84, in Illinois. He shares the journey and time traveler tips in his lively Late Life Crisis blog. It bears the tagline, "Too soon we get old; too late we get smart," so here's where I go in search of some short cuts to the smarts, before it's too late.
