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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Dulce et decorum
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. 10 November 2013 Before our generation the names of those who had died for Ireland were … Continue reading
No left left
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. 9 November 2013 Não é possível votar na esquerda se a esquerda deixou de existir. It … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Literature, Politics, Portugal, Sweden, UK, USA
Tagged José Saramago, Nobel Prize for Literature, non-existent left, Sell-out by the left
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Joker trumps the pack
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. 8 November 2013 Monarchs were pretty ruthless in medieval times. Dissent could cost a courtier their … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Arizona, bank bailouts, City of London, court jester, Easter Island, London riots 2011, party politics, Russell Brand, US drones, Wall Street
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Left = Right
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. 7 November 2013 “For a long time now, at least thirty to forty years, the policy … Continue reading
Posted in Poland, UK
Tagged consumerism, individualism, Margaret Thatcher, social democracy, taxpayers, the working class, University of Leeds, Zygmunt Bauman
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Torture and the United States
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. 6 November 2013 The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, who was born on the island of Kos … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Health, Japan, Torture, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Camp Bagram, Dr Gerald Thomson of Columbia University, Guantánamo Bay, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, Leonard Rubenstein, Mandy Rice-Davies, renditions, Taskforce on Preserving Medial Professionalism, Third Reich, torture
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Great minds think alike
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. 5 November 2013 Nice to have one’s standpoint confirmed by the great and the good. Antigone1984 … Continue reading
US glad-hands Egyptian dictator
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. 4 November 2013 It is no coincidence that US Secretary of State John Kerry rocked up … Continue reading
People versus Populists
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. 3 November 2013 The elections to the European Parliament next May will be a “great battle … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, USA
Tagged Brussels, Enrico Letta, euro currency, European Parliament, European Union, Frankfurt, M5S, populism, UKIP, United States of Europe
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Red readers
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. 2 November 2013 “It is a remarkable institution, especially that exceptional reference section. Ask them any … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics, UK
Tagged British Library, British Museum, Elgin Marbles, Karl Marx, Lenin, Magna Carta, Rosetta Stone
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Celts best Romans
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. 1 November 2013 Vae victis! Woe to the vanquished! Remark attributed to the Celtic leader Brennus … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged 390 BC, Brennus, Celts, Italy, Rome, vae victis, Woe to the vanquished
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