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Monthly Archives: December 2012
What is a cigarette?
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Posted in Europe
Tagged cigarette packaging, curbing smoking, European Commission, European Union, Glenis Wilmott, Tonio Borg
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Dolce far niente
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 December 2012 “Don’t mourn for me, friends, don’t weep for me never, For I’m … Continue reading
Hanged for a sheep
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Posted in Belgium, Police, Politics, UK
Tagged 1984/85 miners' strike, Margaret Thatcher, Neil Kinnock, Old Etonians, Ronald Reagan, Rotherham
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Without comment
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 December 2012 There can be few people who listen to the news that do not … Continue reading
Thin-skinned Brits
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Posted in Police, Religion, UK
Tagged 1986 Public Order Act, Big Brother, civil liberties, internet surveilance, Magna Carta, Runnymede, secret courts
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Illusions perdues
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 14 December 2012 The rumour going round the media mills today is that US Democrat President … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Palestine, UN, USA
Tagged Galba, Henry Kissinger, Noam Chomski, Perry Anderson, Tacitus, United States and UNESCO
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From Russia with love
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Posted in Politics, Russia
Tagged Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Chechnya, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Grozny, Kremlin, Pussy Riot, Vladimir Putin
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