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Articles from an eclectic group of writers with widely different political views.
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The Hub’s African look is down for this Arabic event, speckled with filters recalling the silhouetted fretwork of Oriental screens...
Richard Pooley
- 8 min
A cry of anger from the back of beyond
The death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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መልካም አዲስ ዓመት[1] Happy New Year 2017
I am writing this on the first day of 2017 in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. In the Western calendar it is September 11, a day that...
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Stoker
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Ms Micawber?
In April 2020 Sir Keir Starmer became Leader of the UK’s Labour Party and leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. That means that, in...
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Eric Boa
- 6 min
Mushroom Diplomacy
Japan, South Korea and North Korea share a troubled history. Japan’s colonial era and subsequent treatment of its occupied countries left...
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Michael Carberry
- 6 min
All the History You Ever Needed
What does a prolific author and television presenter of popular histories, biographies, novels and children’s books but who has also...
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