A post on about romance in books reminded me that I had been meaning to write this At the End of the…
Iraq
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It is not always easy to read Chaos and Caliphate: Patrick Cockburn’s review of diary entries and newspaper columns written between 2001…
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Here we are again, looking for a target for all that stockpiled ordinance we have that’s sitting around not being useful and…
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I felt numb all over. Not this. Not again. Nothing original to say. Too many words getting thrown around elsewhere, why add…
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I am not quite sure by what happy chance The Assault by Harry Mulisch arrived on my ‘to read’ list, but I…
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Having been bowled over by ’54’ from the four writers who make up the Italian collective known as Wu Ming, a book…
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So Remembrance Sunday has passed, when the UK spends two minutes quietly remembering its war dead, before returning to the usual business…
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No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up…
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This morning, after a most enjoyable Full English (exquisite black pudding, sorry veggies), I left the Aged Relatives at the station and…
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US Forces in war zones are not going to be banned from smoking, as the Pentagon is worried that to do so…