Category Archives: UN

The best lack all conviction

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 July 2013 Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the … Continue reading

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A smoking gun

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.  11 July 2013 Talk about a smoking gun! As we suggested on 5 July 2013 in … Continue reading

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Jam tomorrow

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 February 2013 Yesterday the London Guardian published an obituary of Irish trade unionist and human … Continue reading

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Illusions perdues

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 December 2012 The rumour going round the media mills today is that US Democrat President … Continue reading

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Wage differentials

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.  8 December 2012 We all know that salaries in the First world differ considerably from those … Continue reading

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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

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Perfidious Albion

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 November 2012 PALESTINE, THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE BALFOUR DECLARATION  Tomorrow Thursday 29 November 2012 … Continue reading

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Fiddling Nero

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.   9 September 2012 THE LESSONS OF MUNICH Emperor Nero sang and fiddled while Rome burned, according … Continue reading

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Not walking the talk

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 May 2012 ONE LAW FOR THE RICH, ANOTHER FOR THE POOR The Greeks don’t seem … Continue reading

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Smelling a rat

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.    20 May 2012 POLLS THAT STINK A seminal question about one aspect of the current … Continue reading

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