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Posts by 59steps

Israel and Gaza – the Battle of Futile Simplicities on July 23, 2014

Summer Reading: Ever the Diplomat on July 22, 2014

Britain’s Silly Season – 12 Months a Year on July 18, 2014

Why the West Fears Putin – Letter to a New Russian Friend on July 17, 2014

Britain’s Obesity Crisis: All Aboard the Good Ship Fatso on July 15, 2014

Fatwas Against Football – Repent, Mr Suarez! on June 27, 2014

Conspiracy Theories – the truth isn’t out there, it’s right in front of us (if we care to look) on June 27, 2014

British Airways Squeezes Its Short-Haul Passengers – Back to the Future? on June 27, 2014

ISIS and the Gulf Markets – Measured Calm or Foolish Complacency? on June 18, 2014

When I was a Boy…. Nostalgia as Propaganda? on June 9, 2014

The D-Day Commemoration – Pomp and Unimaginable Circumstance on June 8, 2014

Gladiator, Pompeii and the Coming of the Film Concert on June 6, 2014

Bahrain to Ban Expatriate Drivers – Shock Horror! on June 5, 2014

UK Education and Islam – The Trojan Horse and the Ladder of Inference on June 4, 2014

The European Union After the Backlash – Gone in 20 Years? on May 30, 2014

The Circle, the Court and the Illusion of Privacy on May 22, 2014

The UK Rich List – What Matters Is Who’s Not Included on May 19, 2014

Nigel Farage – The Johnny Rotten of British Politics? on May 1, 2014

World War One and the Arms Race that Failed to Keep the Peace on April 29, 2014

Is Britain a Christian Nation?… Is the Pope a Catholic? on April 27, 2014

English Football: Bill Shankly and Sir Alex Ferguson – A Tale of Two Autocrats on April 25, 2014

Saudi Arabia – Getting Twitchy About MERS Coronavirus on April 21, 2014

Postcard from Saudi Arabia: The Grey Entrepreneurs on April 15, 2014

The Meaning of Courage on April 6, 2014

Postcard from Bahrain – When is an Airline not an Airline? on April 6, 2014

One Person’s Expatriate is Another Person’s Economic Migrant on April 5, 2014

Britain’s Tax Collectors – Coming to Get Us on March 3, 2014

Facebook at 10 – What to Do with the Silent Majority? on February 26, 2014

Celebrity Sex Trials – the Problem with Memory on February 19, 2014

Martin Carthy – Master of Folk on February 14, 2014