Classy Questions
May 21, 2018 8:43 pm Leave your thoughts
Are you fit enough to join the front-line in the UK's Class War?
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The Post
May 21, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Spielberg's film The Post is about events that are now history. Yet they remain so relevant.
Who is the vassal?
May 21, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
"If you want to understand the policy of a nation, look at the map!" Napoleon is supposed to have said.
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad (Part 3)
May 21, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
On May 2, 2011 Pakistani military cadets at the Kakul Academy in Abbotabad, Pakistan woke up to an approaching juddering sound.
Alone
May 14, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A poem by Elizabeth Ellis
The Writer, Almeida Theatre
May 7, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
A review of the angry new play at the Almeida.
From Afghanistan to Anantnag via Abbotabad (Part 2)
May 1, 2018 9:21 pm Leave your thoughts On 22 March 2018 The Washington Post published Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman's confession regarding the Saudi Arabian government's facilitation of the CIA in financing and offering support to an Islamic cultural narrative across the 'Muslim world'.
Fox in the Hen House: Why Interest Rates Are Rising
May 1, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
The Fed is aggressively raising interest rates, although inflation is contained, private debt is already at 150% of GDP, and rising variable rates could push borrowers into insolvency. So what is driving the Fed's push to "tighten"?
The Great Day
May 1, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughts Two days ago, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For days we heard about nothing else. Innumerable speeches full of platitudes. A huge festival of kitsch.