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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Michael Carberry
- 9 min
A Fundamental Problem: the unholy alliance between fundamentalist religion and extremist politics.
What do Donald Trump’s runaway victories in the all the Republican Primary elections to date and the slaughter of over thirty thousand...
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Richard Pooley
- 7 min
President Macron’s “mad” promise will be kept. Notre Dame will reopen by Christmas.
There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...
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Jean-Luc Barbannneau
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Lost in the Labyrinth of Language
This little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,
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Richard Pooley
- 8 min
As Others See Us...and History
In “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...
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