Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Ten years On

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As the 11th September approaches, more and more articles appear on the significance and effects of the attacks on that day a decade ago. My ...
Monday, September 5, 2011

Saxon villages and fortified churches

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A heavenly day – almost literally! She who must be obeyed needed a break from the work she had been doing on and around the house. I rec...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Islamism - lessons from Marxism

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The Romanian journal Revista 22 which is carrying my article this coming week is rated the country’s finest political and cultural weekly wi...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Words

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I have always been fond of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets not only for its Zen like sense of time and the puniness of our efforts but for its ref...
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Friday, September 2, 2011

Drisle; Good governance; Germany; and the art of Depression

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The almost cloudless skies which greeted us on our arrival here on 10 August have had a 3 week spell and ended only yesterday. Today has bec...
Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Dog that didn't bark

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I delivered this morning my contribution to the special issue which the Revista 22 journal is running next week to mark the 10th anniversary...
Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The new terrorists

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Trying to do justice to the question of how the world has changed in the past decade in 1,000 words is, to put it mildly, rather challenging...
Monday, August 29, 2011

Travails, conversations and travels

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A new nip in the air last Wednesday night and Thursday morning – and a strong breeze. Excellent weather for scything. And I was initiated in...