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There is what is explicit and then there is the implicit. And then there is the wider implication of the stone cold facts…and the ripples they cause in the universal pond.

Category Archives: Politics and Society

Epic Tryst : Marcus And The Cohort Of Select Questions

Epic Tryst : Marcus And The Cohort Of Select Questions

Video: The Barclays Bank’s Fortress has been scaled! Select your weapons! (Any potential reference to a News Group Company is purely incidental) After the excitement of Wimbledon (Andy Murray’s Men’s singles loss) … Continue reading →

July 11, 2012 · Leave a comment
All in all it’s just another bump in the road…

All in all it’s just another bump in the road…

Arguably after the recent RBS/NatWest banking fiasco the most enduring sentence of the summer, and potentially the year, will be “bump in the road”. Initially disguised in an almost unintelligible … Continue reading →

July 9, 2012 · Leave a comment
The making of a treatise on “Englishness”: Reflections on “St George’s Day”

The making of a treatise on “Englishness”: Reflections on “St George’s Day”

After the tumult surrounding the first round of the French elections, the ongoing polemics of the US election and after discovering a blog called Englistics, that featured material about Winston … Continue reading →

April 25, 2012 · Leave a comment
The Somali Diaspora: The root or branch of a failed state?

The Somali Diaspora: The root or branch of a failed state?

(See bottom of post for definition of “Diaspora” by Englistics) The news that has been beaming around the world recently, and particularly over the last few weeks, seems to confirm Somalia has and duly earned, the sobriquet of “the … Continue reading →

February 24, 2012 · Leave a comment
Borgen’s “Slutspurt” Leads To Explosive Climax

Borgen’s “Slutspurt” Leads To Explosive Climax

Any casual reader of blogs and non viewer of Borgen will be thinking that I am referring to a sex scandal that came to dominate and give frisson to the last episode of … Continue reading →

February 5, 2012 · Leave a comment

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