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The First Internationalist
For the last six months or so, I have been engaged in a mammoth reading project which is the biggest one I have ever undertaken...
Dr. Jehad Al-Omari
5 min read


Hosting Ukrainians – one year on
"Odesa. The doctor I went to in London. Remember? I read this morning: her clinic in Odesa was less than a kilometre from where those...
Richard Pooley
6 min read


France: “A paradise inhabited by people who think they're in hell”
How we sniggered, my wife and I. Before we had even bought our house in the village of Vayrac in the Lot Department in south-west France...
Richard Pooley
7 min read


The Return of the Slow Train
If you are British, and old enough to remember when trains could take you to almost anywhere in the UK on time, you may wish to stop...
Richard Pooley
5 min read


The World Post-Covid
The term ‘long Covid’ usually refers to the long-term physical impact of the disease on the health of some of those who have contracted it.
Michael Carberry
8 min read
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