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Democracy and the democratic process is in the spot-light even more than usual following the results of the June Referendum and the U.S. Presidential election. Politics has become the best drama around ( the Story Bazaar has been blogging about … Continue reading
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The party season is upon us soon, whether it be of the chat and Chablis or the daiquiri and dancing variety. Either way, at some point in the evening someone is bound to ask ‘What do you do?’ We often define … Continue reading
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Now that we live in a post-truth world and known things are re-named, so ‘extreme right-wing‘ becomes ‘Alt-Right‘ and ‘inciting fear and hatred‘ becomes ‘journalism‘ I’ve been wondering if it’s possible, as an ordinary person, to live an ‘alt-life‘. Please … Continue reading
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Many aspects of the Trump victory have set alarm bells ringing in Europe and the UK, but one has done so even among Brexiteers. Protectionism. Consistency is not something one associates with the President-Elect, but he has consistently espoused protectionist … Continue reading
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Any history lover, or lover of Dumas’ adventure stories, knows of the original eminence gris Francois Leclerc du Tremblay, the Capuchin right hand man of Cardinal Richelieu, called ‘Father Joseph’ in the Dumas novels. More recently the epithet has been … Continue reading →
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