Tag: politics
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…March 2025
The fundamental problem of publishing a summary of all the March madness on 1st April is that it’s going to read like an April Fools story, but the joke is very much on the rest of us.
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…January 2025
January has brought with it violent storms in Europe, wild fires in California, a new conflict in the DRC, not to mention the continuing war in Ukraine, and a strong sense that somewhere the four riders of the apocalypse are busy saddling up their horses.
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…November 2024
Despite a busy round of news headlines, from multiple conflcts to violent storms, November has mostly been about the calm before the storm, the sharp intake of breath, the oceans receding before the giant tsunami wave comes rushing back at us.
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…October 2024
October has been mainly dominated by the US Presidential election and the worsening geopolitical situation – the two being inextricably linked as everyone waits for the results of the former to see if there’s any chance of dealing with the later.
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…September 2024
Britain’s Labour government will remember September as the month the wheels came off the bus; for the rest of us this is just politics as usual. So far the prime minister Keir Starmer has not quite managed to make a total Liz Truss of things but she did set a very low bar, and hovering…
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…June 2024
With a general election campaign in full swing, most British people have spent June dreaming of a better future, which mostly involves avoiding the news reports.
Nessan Cleary 