We can oppose the murderous racist right without serving the murderous technocratic centre by being clear about the principles on which we stand.
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Polar Czechs
Aflons Mucha’s Slav Epic enjoys glorious pride of place in the Czech National Gallery in Prague. It is a cycle of twenty large and portentous paintings completed between 1910 and 1928 recalling the history and myths of a heterogenous people inhabiting territory from the Asian steppe to the shores of the Mediterranean. The artist imposes […]
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China, daily, everywhere
I didn’t expect to find the China Daily in a beach town on the Algarve but then maybe that’s a logical place to find it, given the large population of expats and holidaying bureaucrats there. The same newspaper (its European edition) is also available for free in the very busy transfer lounges of Dubai and […]
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When home is Homs
“Everybody has lived this war”, writes Marwa Al-Sabouni at the beginning of her remarkable book, ‘The Battle for Home – the memoir of a Syrian architect’, which details in a singular voice how this once tolerant and beautiful country in the Middle East rapidly descended into murderous chaos after the Arab Uprisings in 2011. Al-Sabouni […]
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Corporation-led Eurolegislation
The European Parliament bowed to corporate pressure last month and approved the Directive on Passenger Name Records (PNR). This Directive will oblige airlines to hand over to national authorities passenger data from all flights between EU countries and other countries. The data collected will include 42 different pieces of information, including bank details, address, seat […]
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Stalin/out
That there was something altogether more disturbing about Hitler’s Germany than Stalin’s Russia is often assumed. Perhaps it derived from disappointment at Germany, the most intellectually and industrially-advanced country of its time, being led by an individual whose core belief was the annihilation of a substantial ethno-religious minority. By comparison the aspirational ends of Stalinism […]
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UNethical
Most right-thinking Irish people think the UN is progressive, scrupulous and transparent. They may think the Security Council is compromised by geopolitics but the intiatives emanating from the General Assembly are benign. All that worthy peace-keeping, progressive resolutions ending wars. Climate. Children. Education. We need then to take at look at the world’s largest corporate […]
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