Category Archives: Politics

Pinocchio

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 March 2010 HIPPOCRATES A flagship bill to privatise Britain’s publicly funded national health service (NHS) … Continue reading

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Marx

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.    18 March 2010 “These are my principles,” said Groucho Marx. “If you don’t like them, … Continue reading

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Nuremberg and Athens

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Boiled frog

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.   15 March 2012 If you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water it will … Continue reading

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Red carpet

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.   ANGLO-US TALKS FOCUS ON RETREAT FROM AFGHANISTAN 14 March 2012 We refer below to the writings … Continue reading

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Calvin still rules, OK?

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.    13 March 2010   If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be … Continue reading

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Selling off the family silver

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Cosa Nostra

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A Georgian joke

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 March 2012 იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე სტალინი In a letter to the Guardian yesterday alluding to … Continue reading

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Qualunquismo

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 March 2012 SO WHAT? “The times are out of joint, but we were not … Continue reading

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