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A Postcard From India; Gandhi, His Politics, The People

31st January 2023 Colin Cross 2432 Comments

As I’ve said before during this series of posts, following my recent trip to The Sub Continent, India is a land of often stark contrasts. Its population (official figure) is approaching 1.5 billion people, nobody [more…]

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Nightmare In Bordj Badji Mokhtar

14th September 2022 Going Postal 2978 Comments

Bordj Badji Mokhtar is an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert on the border with Mali, 1368 miles south of Algiers. As of 2008, there were 16.937 inhabitants in Bordj Badji Mokhtar. Since what I [more…]

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Glesga Gang Goings-on Bloodbath

12th August 2021 Always Worth Saying 3226 Comments

Having put Apsana Begum MP’s Bengali Benefits bother to bed, GP’s Bloodbath investigative team retired to the couch, hoping never again to be involved in the likes of Tower Hamlets and its South Asian political, [more…]

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The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part Four

12th November 2020 Joe Slater 5800 Comments

A sure-fire way to spoil the mood at Paris dinner party is to airily remark, when the conversation turns to literature, that you have read and enjoyed Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), by Renaud [more…]

Joe Slater, Going Postal
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The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part Three

5th November 2020 Joe Slater 5021 Comments

Note: This text is not a translation, but is largely based on Le Suicide Français by Éric Zemmour (2014), from which it quotes heavily, both directly and silently. The analysis is Zemmour’s, not mine, and [more…]

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The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part Two

29th October 2020 Joe Slater 3892 Comments

The black and beur (French-Arab) communities have always had complicated ties with France. The early waves of European immigrants — the Italians, the Spanish, the Poles — came from proud, independent peer cultures, and the [more…]

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The (Postwar) Fall of France, Part One

22nd October 2020 Joe Slater 3580 Comments

Has there ever been a stranger accession to power in a western democracy recently than that of Emmanuel Macron? In 2014, he rose from nowhere to Minister of the Economy and then in 2017 was [more…]

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Some of my best friends are……..

8th June 2020 Lugosi 3102 Comments

All the media focus on Black militancy and publicity about BAME deaths due to coronavirus is turning my natural liberal, anti-racist core from Zero towards Six towards the Right-Wing/Conservative scale. Given that broadcasters suppress comment [more…]

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Bashar al-Assad’s Journey

6th November 2019 well_chuffed 3401 Comments

As we stand on the cusp of the Syrians and Turks continuing diplomacy by other means it may be an opportune time to have a quick look at Bashar al-Assad. The son of the former [more…]

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