Monday, 30 September 2013

Getting spooked about the White Widow

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Where would we be without the spooks? They keep us safe at night. Don’t they? And, boy, do we need protection. Right now, for instance, we ...
Saturday, 28 September 2013

Sharing the pain

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We’re all in this together. David Cameron made that pronouncement soon after he formed the current British government in 2010. David C...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Nations trek from progress, as empty causes devour flames of genius

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For doomed youth, Wilfred Owen wrote, there would be flowers formed by ‘the tenderness of patient minds, and each slow dusk a drawing-down ...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

Battle lines in Britain

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Time for the gloves to come off. An electorate with little interest in politics doesn’t need complexities and sophistication. It needs cl...
Friday, 20 September 2013

True Glory

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In among all the talk about war, or possibly no war, between Syria and the West in recent weeks, I’ve taken to thinking again about what it...
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Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Washington shootings: which are the fundamental rights?

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So it’s happened again. Yesterday, Aaron Alexis, the latest gun-wielding mass murderer to strike in the US, killed twelve people in the Wash...
Monday, 16 September 2013

The US and Iran? Really? What brought that on?

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The US might soon be talking to Iran.  Just writing those words feels a little weird. It’s like saying that Napoleon and the Duke of Well...