The family wanted to drag me out to Dubai Mall on a Friday.
‘I never drive to Downtown on a Friday!’ I declared.
‘No worries, we’ll take the Metro,’ they insisted. So we did.
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RIP Edhi – a true modern-day Saint
RIP Abdul Sattar Edhi, a true Saint whose dedication to humanity and incredible humility will never be matched. We should mourn not for him, but for mankind, as there will never be another like him to walk amongst us.
I was privileged to have met him and took this picture of Edhi with my late father, when I interviewed him sometime in the early 90s. It was the only time my dad ever joined me in my work, and only because he wanted to meet Edhi.
It seems all the good people are leaving us now because the world is going to hell.
Celebrated humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi passes away in Karachi
Does Brexit = Racial Intolerance? I pray not!
Let’s NOT do the Time Warp Again – cause the 1970s sucked if you were a ‘Paki’ in London. And I should know, because I was.
This about to get deeply personal. So much so that I’m not even sure I should publish this, and might well delete it shortly.
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I’m on Snapchat
I don’t understand it but I’m on it – and much silliness is sure to ensue!
Why the best job in the world, is the toughest job in the world
On the right of this page, you’ll see my personal Instagram feed. Scroll through that and it probably won’t come as a surprise to you that those of us that do the sort of work that I mainly do (that of automotive journalist), are more than frequently assaulted with plaudits like:
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Ice Tea Powder Review
I love Ice Tea, and this powdered stuff is great because I can keep it in the cupboard and just make it up whenever I want.
I usually buy the Lipton Ice Tea Powder, but I thought I’d try the Nestea version for a change and to compare the two.
The-last-sane-person-in-the-Asylum sort of day…
I’m sad, and more than a little personally gutted as something of a Trekker, to concede that the utopia dreamt up by Gene Roddenberry in the Star Trek universe will never come to be. This is not because Einstein killed the Warp Drive, or because we’ll all end up as scrambled molecules after ill-advised mass Transporter experiments.
It’s simply because the easiest of all the advancements depicted in Star Trek is beyond our grasp. That of course being ‘human evolution’. I’m not referring to the disappointment of not growing an extra pair of eyes in the back of our heads, or developing telepathic abilities, nor even sporting cybernetic implants and robotic limbs.
I mean sociological, conscientious and cultural evolution.
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Why I’m a petrolhead – Exhibit A
Several meetings, a lot of driving, a bit of photography and a late night radio show. After a long hard day like this, I’m normally exhausted and a little bit fed-up and down.
Instead I’m buzzing and the adrenalin is still flowing. Cars can make all the difference to petrolheads.
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My favourite pics of 2015
Scanning back through my Facebook timeline for 2015, these are some of the pictures I loved looking at again the most. Starting with the friendly camel who was very interested in our car shoot!
