Random thoughts and ramblings on no particular theme.
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Strange kind of day. Easter Sunday always is for me though I suppose. I always have a smothering sense of silence on this day, even when I was kid Easter Sunday felt like this. It is always so very, very familiar in that respect. I think it’s to do with being raised a Catholic. The
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The Prevention Of Terrorism Bill under discussion in the UK begins with an insightful explanatory note by the former UK Home Secretary, David Blunkett. As a precursor to any debate on that rather delicate matter of Human Rights, Blunkett is keen to set the record straight immediately, with a direct and typically matter of fact
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This is an unsettling book. I finished reading it a few weeks back but it has taken me to now to be able to lay down my thoughts. There’s something intriguing about it which is hard to pinpoint. The blurb on the cover hints at a tight paced thriller, whose plot centers on a series
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There was a time when George Bush, in his inefably cutsey way affectionately referred to his new pal in the Kremlin as “Pootie Poot”. Seems those days are gone. In the face of evidence that the Kremlin is increasingly exerting “authoritarian” control over many aspects of Russian life, the US is now keen to ensure
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Damn! Today I read that I am not as unique as I perhaps thought I was. Here was I thinking that my increasingly sombre mood and neurotic preoccupation with work, life and the meaning of it all, was my burden to bear and mine alone. Turns out that such a conceit is nothing more than
