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Thursday, 22 August 2019
Slavery and Trump: the poison lingers
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We’re about to commemorate, because celebrate really isn ’ t the right word, the fourth centenary of the introduction of slavery on the Nort...
Thursday, 4 July 2019
Have a happy Independence Day. But maybe remember what it means too
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Twelve score and three years ago, the fathers of our cousins across the Atlantic, brought forth on their continent a new nation, conceived i...
Thursday, 27 November 2014
Ferguson: continuation not interruption
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Hasn’t it been fascinating to follow the happenings from Ferguson? Ferguson. Curious spectacle I particularly enjoyed the descripti...
Monday, 26 August 2013
Slavery: seems the Blacks were just fine with it. Like victims of any abuse
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A Polish émigré, Julian Niemcewicz, who visited George Washington in 1798, commented ‘Either from habit, or from natural humour disposed to...
Monday, 31 December 2012
The event of 2012: Obama's re-election
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Before wishing everyone much pleasure and success in 2013, and in the midst of all the retrospectives for the end of the current year, I wa...
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