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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...
Michael Carberry
9 min read
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...
Richard Pooley
7 min read
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,
Jean-Luc Barbannneau
10 min read
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...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
King’s Lynn and the Meaning of Nowhere
We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...
Stoker
6 min read
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