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The Trump effect

One columnist whose pieces I always find worth reading – though I don’t necessarily agree with them – is Patrick Cockburn who currently pens his most often for The Independent. Here’s a link to the one that appears on the website of said newspaper today, discussing press [...]

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

Whoops!

Over the last couple of years the world seems to have gradually divorced itself from rationality, order and even reality. Is it pompous to suggest that much of human development results from a clash of ‘preserving what we cherish’ (conservatism with a small ‘C’) and by lobbying, protesting [...]

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

You read it here first!

Continuing its ‘topic of the moment’ theme, here’s an article by Angela Pippos upon the latest developments in the march of the sport of netball towards world sporting domination that appears on the website today of The Guardian.  This is a genuine case of a phenomenon and not [...]

February 17, 2017 // 0 Comments

Who dares sometimes wins

Despite my general antipathy towards technology over time I am pleased to report that I have mastered the rudiments of being able to record television programmes before they are aired – or alternatively go back and watch those I have missed via a ‘catch up’ facility –  on my cable TV [...]

February 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Maybe a common sense approach would work

According to my brief researches on the internet it was Oscar Wilde who originated the bon mot about life tending to imitating art (rather than the other way around) and already it’s semi-amusing to see how the American right’s flirtation with its Trump Experiment is simultaneously shaking up [...]

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

Watching it all anyway

One of the special hallmarks of this website is its editorial stance, or some might suggest lack of one. I’m reminded of it every time I consider making a contribution because it forces me to confront probably the most beneficial constraints and imperatives that any would-be scribe can operate [...]

January 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

The way forward

Now let’s get this straight. Donald ‘Slim Pickens’ Trump is the new President of the United States and already he’s behaving like a loose cannon, ruffling feathers everywhere, issuing executive orders destroying every aspect of the Obama legacy that appears on his radar, warning China of a [...]

January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments

Window on the new world?

Very strange mix of thoughts and feelings yesterday as I strapped myself in to watch the Trump inauguration on Capitol Hill on BBC1 from 4.00pm UK time. My original plan had been to take exercise of some sort in the afternoon because I had been confined to my home engaged upon domestic and other [...]

January 21, 2017 // 0 Comments

Interesting times

Over the last couple of years the world has endured an extraordinary succession of geo-political and national developments (one hesitates to say ‘crises’). Hold the phone a second. I was conscious just now that when I began typing the above sentence that ‘succession’ might not be the [...]

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

EAST WEST STREET/PHILIPPE SANDS

EAST WEST STREET is a portrait of two eminent jurists and an investigation into the antecedents of international human rights lawyer Phillippe Sands. The common denominator is Lviv, a city sometimes in Poland but now in Ukraine as the two lawyers, Hirsch Lauterpacht and Raphael Lemkin both lived in [...]

January 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

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