Tag: middle-east
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Urgent appeal for brains and courage!
“I will thkweem and thkweem until I’m thick. I will throw myself on the floor, I will blow up the world if you don’t give me what I want.” Anyone who’s ever cared for a two-year-old will recognize the catastrophic tantrum, the baby-turned monster who’s realized the world does not always bend to its needs.…
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Cameron, Lord of the Manor, bringer of referendum
Header pic: detail from a Peter Brookes cartoon Do you remember those history lessons at school, where we learned about feudalism, and how it was an odd system they had in the UK centuries ago? A world where the people we now call citizens were called ‘serfs’ or ‘peasants’, and they and their work literally…
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Israelism: film review and three take-aways
I’m sitting in front of a big screen, crammed with 40 or more others in the back room of a pub. The film starts, and we’re watching one of those brain-melting Trump-style mass rallies, all flashing lights, reverberating electronic drums and streaming flags. Bright-eyed crowds are standing waving their arms, screaming in excitement – but…