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POTUS meets the Queen of England
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Posted in Brexit, Europe, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Buckingham Palace, Dick Whittington, Donald Trump, Frankenstein, George W.Bush, Oliver Twist, Picasso, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Nixon, Robin Hood, Shakespeare, Theresa May
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Up north
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Posted in Literature, UK
Tagged Alan Bennett, bright lights, Down south, madding crowds, parish pump, patavini, provincialism, tyke, Up north, Yorkshire
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The iron law of politics
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Posted in Politics, Transport, UK
Tagged Labour Government, Martha Gellhorn, Sadia Khan
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The Two Cultures
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 October 2018 “If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Health, Japan, Literature, Netherlands, Science, UK
Tagged haiku, immunology, Sir Peter Medawar, Vincent Van Gogh
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Tennessee Waltzer
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Posted in Europe, Music, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged human rights, Jim Cooper, LGBTQ. Tennessee Waltz, mid-term US elections, Phil Bredesen, Taylor Swift, Tennessee
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Hebrew prophet
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Posted in Australia, Canada, Cosmology, Europe, France, Germany, History, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philosophy, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Science, Turkey, UK, USA
Tagged “21 Lessons for the 21st Century” (2018), “Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow” (2016), “Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” (2014), Cosmology, Hebrew prophet, Yuval Noah Harari
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Oklahoma!
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Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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Bad losers
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Posted in China, Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Politics, UK
Tagged "Die Lösung, "Ode to Joy", Alexis Tsipras, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bertolt Brecht, Bertrand Russell, Brexit, democracy, demos, direct democracy, European Central Bank, European Commission, International Monetary Fund, Joachim Gauck, populism, populus, Quisling, representative democracy, Schiller, Syriza, UK referendum on EU, Wolfgand Schäuble
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John Lennon
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Posted in Literature, Music, UK, USA
Tagged "The Beatles", Central Park, John Lennon, New York
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Les neiges d’antan
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Posted in Literature, UK, USA
Tagged "Dick the shepherd", "greasy Joan", "Love's Labour's Lost", global warming, London, William Shakespeare
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