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Category Archives: UK
Thin-skinned Brits
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 December 2012 BEST KEEP MUM John Richards, an atheist pensioner from the County of Lincolnshire … Continue reading
Posted in Police, Religion, UK
Tagged 1986 Public Order Act, Big Brother, civil liberties, internet surveilance, Magna Carta, Runnymede, secret courts
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A hard rain’s gonna fall
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 December 2012 If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on … Continue reading
“Frothy tasteless milk”
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Fertile Crescent
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 December 2012 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE “I think that people want peace so much that one … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Israel, Palestine, UK, UN, USA
Tagged Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nakba, UN admission of Palestine
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“To be, or not 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. 2 December 2012 A DILEMMA The historic industrial metropolis of Newcastle upon Tyne (population around 280 … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, UK
Tagged Geordies, Lee Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nick Forbes, Pons Aelius, Roman Emperor Hadrian
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Dulce domum
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 November 2012 NO CURVES, THANK YOU, WE’RE BRITISH! Lots of people throughout the world are … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, UK
Tagged brownfield sites, greenbelt, Michael Gove, Nick Boles, nimbies
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Perfidious Albion
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Posted in Israel, Palestine, UK, UN, USA
Tagged Balfour Declaration, Jenny Tonge, Leslie Turnberg, Walter Rothschild, William Hague
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Not a human jungle
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Salaam = Shalom
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Posted in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Eli Yishai, Fatah, Gaza, Hamas, Mahmoud Abbas, Mohammed Morsi, Noam Chomsky
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