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Posts tagged 'war'
Poem: What They Don’t Know Is
January 4, 2020 -
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after Dennis O’Driscoll That this cannot be avoided by everyone wearing protective glasses. That the contents of their...
Poem: The Universal Moderate
November 23, 2019 -
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after Buffy Sainte-Marie Over wishy-washy tea in the office canteen, or when you’re condemned to sit beside him at...
Rubble and Ruin: Banksy’s New Concrete Canvas
March 15, 2015 -
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The streets of Gaza provide a canvas for Banksy’s latest work which highlights the Palestinian struggle Since...
Child Refugees in the USA: An Illegitimate Debate
October 6, 2014 -
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Young, desperate immigrants and refugees to the USA are caught between two sides of a debate on “principles” after having...
World War I and the Arab Revolts
July 15, 2014 -
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In an interview with The Platform, author and veteran war correspondent Scott Anderson discusses Lawrence of Arabia and explains...
Unearthing the Mass Graves of Srebrenica
July 12, 2014 -
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Four mass graves discovered in Srebrenica as survivors retrace their footsteps Nineteen years after the massacre,...
Visualising Rwanda Reborn
March 31, 2014 -
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The ‘Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now’ exhibition highlights Rwanda’s new era of development “You...
Fanning the Flames of Anger and Hope: Remembering Tony Benn
March 26, 2014 -
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As the iconic orator is laid to rest, the unfair rhetoric of contemporary British politicians must make way for the legacy...
England and the East: A Tale of Pirates and Treasures
January 15, 2014 -
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A vast history of trade and notorious exchange of pirates shows England has more connections with the Islamic world than...
What If the Ottomans Had Won in 1683?
November 24, 2013 -
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If King Jan III Sobieski of Poland had not arrived in Vienna on 12th September 1683, the dynamics of global power would have...
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