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Category Archives: UK
Monotheism with two Gods
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 February 2013 “When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Religion, UK
Tagged atheism, Catholics, Islam, Protestants, Quentin Crisp, Shias, Sunnis
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Fundamentalism v. Fundamentalism
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 February 2013 FREE MARKETEERING OR SHARIA LAW: WHICH IS WORSE? After a week’s break, Antigone1984 … Continue reading
Knobbly carrots
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 January 2013 FRANKENSTEIN CROPS “NOT NEEDED” Letter in the London Guardian on 12 January 2013 … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, UK
Tagged food waste, Frankenstein foods, GM crops, knobbly carrot, Maggie Lloyd
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Things ain’t wot they used to be
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 January 2013 ……ἐν δὲ τοῖς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν θεάσασθ᾽ ὁποῖοι, ἔν τε τοῖς κοινοῖς … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, UK
Tagged David Cameron "wisteria", Demosthenes, Miltiades, Olynthus, Philip of Macedon
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Participative democracy
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Wolves in sheep’s clothing
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Posted in Europe, Politics, UK
Tagged Bettino Craxi, Clement Attlee, Felipe González, François Mitterand, Gordon Brown, José Zapatero, Tony Blair, UK Labour Party
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Time to begin the begin
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. 31 December 2012 We began the year with a bang. We are ending it with a … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Syria, Torture, UK, USA
Tagged Auld Lang Syne, Hellas, Not with a bang but a whimper, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert "Rabbie" Burns
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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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