Posts from the ‘History’ Category
- Postcard from Vietnam – Part 1: Ho Chi Minh City on January 30, 2017
- Postcard from Da Nang, on the eve of an inauguration on January 19, 2017
- Autumn reading: six stories from an anxious world on November 15, 2016
- The Plough and The Stars – playing the long bawl on September 26, 2016
- Sanctuaries from the Summer of Hate on July 31, 2016
- Trump is the new Hitler……really? on March 8, 2016
- Postscript to 2015: Revisiting A Man in Despair on December 31, 2015
- After Paris – the Futility of the Blame Game on November 17, 2015
- Jeremy Corbyn and Iraq – a meaningless apology? on August 21, 2015
- Book Review: Christina Lamb’s Farewell Kabul on June 10, 2015
- Easter Reading: Germany – Memories of a Nation on April 9, 2015
- Daesh: the Destroyers of History? No Chance on March 17, 2015
- Postcard from Saudi Arabia – the Hidden Well of Kindness on December 12, 2014
- UKIP and Hitler – The Perils of Learning from the Bad Guys on August 10, 2014
- Summer Reading: The Mighty Dead – Why Homer Matters on August 5, 2014
- Israel and Gaza – the Battle of Futile Simplicities on July 23, 2014
- Two Weeks at the Movies: The Wolf of Wall Street and Other Tales on January 30, 2014
- Winter Reading: Catastrophe – Europe Goes to War 1914 on January 12, 2014
- Winter Reading: The Broken Road on January 9, 2014
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