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Twilight of the General
Guatemala is not a country that has had much to celebrate in the last half a century. In 1954, a US-backed coup overthrew the centre-left government of Jacobo Arbenz, and ushered in a thirty year ‘war’ – or rather a … Continue reading
New Labour: Thatcher’s greedy children
Readers of this blog will probably have noticed that I’m no great fan of Ed Miliband’s tepid opportunism, but it’s interesting that the ‘big guns’ in the Labour Party have come out of the woodwork to lecture him as the … Continue reading
Waiting for the Bulgarians
Oh dear. For months the tabloid press has been working itself and the British public into a frenzy of horror at the prospect of an invasion of Bulgarian and Romanian immigrant, and what a shameful spectacle it has been. … Continue reading
Corleone in the Congo
Most fans of The Godfather will recall the following memorable exchange between Michael Corleone and his upstanding wife on his father’s business activities: I was reminded of that observation by the letter sent to the latest issue of the … Continue reading
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