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Posts from the ‘Politics’ Category

Civis Europae Sum – for now on December 4, 2018

The twin sagas of Trump and Brexit, and four aspects of Brexit that keep me awake on December 2, 2018

“The world is a dangerous place!” The statement on Khashoggi that Trump could have made (but never would). on November 25, 2018

Harry Hickson’s War Dairy – The Road to Armistice on November 11, 2018

Weaponising Winston on October 22, 2018

Jamal Khashoggi on October 10, 2018

Britain’s National Health Service six months before Brexit – my own little road test on October 7, 2018

The sour smell of success on October 1, 2018

Brexit – a floating voter’s lament on September 25, 2018

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first make mad (or, Who let the dogs out?) on September 9, 2018

Summer Reading: Travellers in the Third Reich on September 5, 2018

Six months to Brexit: the sunlit uplands beckon on July 31, 2018

Brexit: time to escape from the bog on July 19, 2018

Welcome to the ugliest American on July 13, 2018

Summer in Russia, winter in America and the opium of football on July 4, 2018

The Rules of Golf – a shining beacon for our new world order? on June 10, 2018

So it’s time to stamp out cruelty to small words on June 7, 2018

Shame, Redemption and the American Way on May 31, 2018

Fog signals, lightning strikes and obituaries – a wander down the byways of the mainstream media on May 29, 2018

The Irish Referendum on May 27, 2018

This is what entitled looks like on May 25, 2018

One of us – how football can teach us to embrace immigration on May 18, 2018

British local elections – an earthquake in my little town on May 5, 2018

The Power Pose – Colossus of Rhodes or wobbly-legged goalkeeper? on May 1, 2018

Amber Rudd departs – to a better life perhaps on April 30, 2018

Blissful evenings with the AntiTrump on April 15, 2018

The Social Media – Walking the Streets of Hatred Central on April 10, 2018

The Anatomy of a Leaker on April 4, 2018

Daniel Ellsberg’s nuclear Doomsday Machine – still with us today on March 31, 2018

Delete Facebook to keep the data predators at bay? I don’t think so on March 22, 2018