Category Archives: COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

All the president’s men

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.   29 April 2012 FROM THE YACOUBIAN BUILDING TO TAHRIR SQUARE AND BACK You can tell the … Continue reading

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Newton and Lennon

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.   28 April 2012 Any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that … Continue reading

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Calling MPs to account

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.  27 April 2012 Today, at the request of UK political activist and former Green Party member … Continue reading

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Posh boys

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.  26 April 2012 THE PRICE OF MILK The British Tory Prime Minister David Cameron must be … Continue reading

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Arbeit macht frei

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.  25 April 2012 Sign over the entrance to British internment camp in Kenya in the 1950s: … Continue reading

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Hemingway

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.  24 April 2012 TRUST NOT, RUE NOT In his recent memoirs, Mr Peter Hain, a former … Continue reading

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Bank robbery

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.   22 April 2012 Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank? What … Continue reading

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Yorktown redux

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.   The following is an updated version of our report “EU waves white flag” published on 29 … Continue reading

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Theft

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 April 2012 I asked a man in prison once how he happened to be there … Continue reading

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Mandate of heaven

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 April 2012 Mencius said to King Hsüan of Ch’i, “Suppose a subject of Your Majesty’s, … Continue reading

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