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A round-up from Iraq to Jamaica: “A person can be loyal to his country without being loyal to the people who run his country.” So [...]
September 11, 2008
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As we’re heading west for a weekend with family in GOC, another quick round-up: Online maps might be leading us astray. That’s [...]
August 29, 2008
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So how was it for you? I eschewed my usual couch potato status for this Olympic Games. It wasn’t a boycott, as such, rather a holiday [...]
August 25, 2008
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I didn’t really miss too much on my 10-day break – apart from war in the Caucuses, the fastest jogger on Earth and the tale of two [...]
August 19, 2008
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The 2008 Olympic Games all set to start with the usual mixture of daft opening ceremonies and navel-gazing about British hopes, particularly in [...]
August 4, 2008
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It has been a reading time over the last couple of days – plus I played hooky with Rachel yesterday to go to the cinema and took my bike [...]
July 22, 2008
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I am a dedicated and experienced armchair athlete. So, like many others of a similar persuasion, an Olympic year is always a time of great [...]
March 30, 2008
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It will be interesting to see just how successful the World Association of Newspapers is in attempt to highlight the lack of press freedom in [...]
March 4, 2008
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China is gearing up to welcome the world to this year’s Olympic Games by clamping down on foreign culture. After introducing restrictions [...]
February 20, 2008