Officials are urging people not to take selfies whilst voting; this is to prevent them from inadvertently showing other people’s voting decisions in the background. I embarked on a Google. I assumed people would ignore the...
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Usually I’m indifferent to politics. I will take a quick glance at the news every now and again, judge that there’s no way the BNP are going to get much of a following,...
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UKIP are worryingly visible at the moment as I’m sure you can’t have failed to notice. They are being taken ever more seriously and that, for me, is terrifying. I thought I would collate...
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If you’ve got the time, money and patience, it is possible to visit North Korea. But only the side of North Korea that the government is happy for you to see. You’ll be...
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Racism is all in the context. Saying a particular word is not racist in itself. It totally depends how you say it, why you are saying it and how it is perceived. This...
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Maybe I’m a bit late to the game here, but I found something out today that made me feel sick, tired and sad. I knew that The Sun, Daily Mail and Mirror newspapers...
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Like most developing countries, the population of Ukraine is steadily migrating from the countryside to the commercial hubs. Villages and farms slowly empty and cities and towns steadily fill. The young can’t wait...
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North Korea is no joke of course, but some of the stunts and propaganda they’ve come out with over the years can genuinely appear childish. And funny. Kijong-dong is one of their more flimsy attempts...
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In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people across 65 nations and found that 24% of all respondents answered that the US “is...
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Well, it looks like the answer to the question in the title is “no”. (Click image above to enlarge.) I was actually looking on a Russian site when I found them reporting this...
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