EDL, BNP, UKIP, all worryingly familiar names in British politics nowadays. Due to economic changes and social issues at home and abroad the far right in Britain and Europe at large is having...
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Last year the UN released a sweeping and damning report on North Korea’s awful human rights performance. The document was heavy in word count and detail. Painstakingly researched using North Korean visitors and defectors...
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I’m a fan of flags, but I don’t know much about them though to be honest. I enjoy flags in a childlike, “oooh look at the shapes and colours” sort of a way. I...
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A chap called David Sheen who writes for Mondoweiss recently posted up some pretty shocking screen grabs of tweets from young Israeli kids. He searched for the word “ARAVIM” which is the Israeli term...
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In Iran it’s illegal for a woman not to wear a hijab in public. To our Western sensibilities that seems like utter madness, but I guess you have to try and remove your Westerncentric...
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Tony Blair has probably never been less popular than he is now. I remember when he initially took the throne of power in the mighty city of England. I remember thinking “this guy seems...
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If I asked you to give me the name of a famous Mongolian I expect you would say ‘Genghis Khan’, that’s the only famous Mongolian I knew about until today. It turns out that...
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Wherever there’s division and tension there be art. There’s also art where there’s unity and peace. I guess you could say there’s art everywhere. How about that? Yup I think that covers it....
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Ukraine has big beefs afoot at the moment. Russia’s not just breathing down its neck, it’s doing a little puke down there too. A few days ago there was a battle between Ukrainian...
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This is the first post I’ve done that is aimed squarely at philatelists. But I hope non-philatelists will be able to enjoy this bizarre selection of North Korean stamps too. I’ve never been...
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