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The Story of Fairness: Part 4: Fairness and Job’s
David Lloyd George: The Peoples Budget changed the direction of liberal thought. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Wednesday 5th December 2012: In his book, Civilization, The West and The Rest, the...
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Geopolitical Realities: Part 1: Obama, Britain & The EU
Schengen Agreement (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Saturday 19th January 2013 No one who has followed American politics for the last 18 months can be in any doubt that President Obama cuts a slightly...
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A few points about women on the Front Line
Officer of the Union Army in the American Civil War. Facial Hair may be far less Common in Future Conflicts (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Saudi Arabia: Saturday 26th January 2013 In the wake of the...
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Democracy, History and the Lessons of the Iraq War
President George W. Bush applauds former Prime Minister Tony Blair after presenting him Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, with the 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom during ceremonies in the East Room of the...
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Freedom and ‘The Dictatorship of the Majority’
World map showing the 2008 (based in 2007 data) countries considered “electoral democracies” (in blue), according to American organization Freedom House. Reference: Freedom in the World 2010; Freedom...
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The Leaving of Villa 13
Riyadh: Saturday 6th April 2013 Yesterday, as a result of a downsizing of our service delivery team in Riyadh, I was obliged to move out of Villa 13, the compound accommodation in which I have been...
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The Day of my Promotion: An undignified comedy
Riyadh: Tuesday 9th April 2013 Today, at two minutes past ten in the morning, I received the news that I had been working towards for most of the last decade. How many times I had imagined this moment,...
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Reflections amid the uneasy quiet of a Hampshire Village
War Memorial and Thatched Cottages, Hampshire (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Monday 17th June 2013 Way back on the 8th of May, I was recovering from a nasty infection and suggested...
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The duplicity of The British “Ugly Tax”
Wedding Day or Pay Day? (Photo credit: Fikra) Riyadh, Wednesday 3rd July 2013 Earlier this week a British Conservative MP, Tim Laughton, made a point of reminding the Conservative wing of the coalition...
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Reflections on a visit to Portsmouth Naval Dockyard; The Fighting Temeraire,...
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 19th September 2013 In 2005 listeners to BBC Radio 4′s The Today Program (the flagship...
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