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Starmer’s Short Fuse: Why Britain’s PM Risks Losing the Plot
Britain’s new Prime Minister has a real image problem. In just five months Keir Starmer’s approval rating has plummeted to -38, a...
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Dead Law and Perishable Nations: Why Constitutions Beckon Revolutions
Germany is an invented state. Or rather, Germany Mark X (patent 1990) is an invented state. It was invented to replace Germany Mark IX...
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Let’s Play the Blame Game - It Doesn’t Look Good for Democrats
Recent events have left Democrats around the US playing the all too familiar blame game - we see this with every election, grasping at...
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Language Barriers on the Pont des Arts: Aya Nakamura vs. the Académie Française
My first article as a lobsterman (also known as a harvester) was pessimistically named ‘The Impending Fiasco of the Paris Olympics’. A...
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Lobsters in Art: the Anglophilia of Eugène Delacroix
Eugène Delacroix, Nature morte au homard et trophées de chasse et de pêche, Salon of 1827, 80 x 106 cm, Louvre Dear crustaceans, This...
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Making Opera Happen: the Perilous World of Keeping Britain’s Classical Music Alive
I. The coronavirus pandemic may have forced virtually all aspects of life to wilt, but there can be no doubt that it...
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Bats, Ball(room)s, Beethoven, and Byriani: The diary of an English cricketer on the Rhine
Foreword, 25.10.2024 May the 9th 2024, The Upper Mound Stand, Lord’s “This is my son William; he opens the bowling for the Authentics...
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Starmer Could’ve Led in Europe - Thanks Brexit
Our newly elected Labour government continues to be a tale of two feelings - happiness in what we have, and sadness in what could have...
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Addiction Generation: How long can social media last?
Joe Biden has had a tough few weeks, so it feels only fair to give a little attention to his strengths – although we do acknowledge that...
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The Decay of Potential in Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night
The seed of tragedy is sown upon one’s decision to be great. The declaration, so often made in youth, seems to correlate, if not causate,...
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Starmer Failed MPs on Gaza - How Does He Rectify This?
The Labour election campaign was pretty perfect. From day one, the Conservatives fumbled from one disaster to another - rain on arrival,...
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Domestic Terrorism or Federal Conspiracy?
How the media is helping frame Donald Trump as a stone-cold survivor. Back in 2020, while serving as President, Donald Trump contracted...
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The Bear’s Third Course is still essential viewing, and that’s Non-Negotiable.
Spoiler Warning: ‘The Bear’ Christopher Storer’s masterpiece, The Bear, has released its most anticipated third season, but the ten...
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“Too Close to Call”: How Biden’s Re-election Bid is in Grave Danger
“It’s a two party system, you have to vote for one of us!” are the wise words of Kang and Kodos in The Simpsons 1996 episode ‘Treehouse...
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A Storm in a Teacup? Climate and the 2024 United States Presidential Elections
If there is a holiday which President George W. Bush is unlikely to forget, it is the one he took during August 2005. On the 29th of that...
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Gathering Dust: What makes a classic?
What makes a classic? As an answer – or to avoid the rather puzzling question – you might name some: Anna Karenina, Nineteen Eighty-Four,...
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New Historicism: The case of T.S Eliot’s Waste Land
What is most interesting about “The Waste Land”, is its relentless reliance on elements of the past. Of course, as much could arguably be...
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Literary travels with The Lobster: Verses of Valour and The Somme
April is perhaps the best month to drive around the battlefields of the Somme. Whilst not experiencing the ‘Rain, midnight rain, nothing...
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Anatomy of a Fall: The Fine Line Between Truth and Fiction
I have spent the past three years searching for an easy answer to the question, ‘How does one write?’. I yearn to find some way to cheat...
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The Impending Fiasco of the Parisian Olympics
As with most Olympic Games, the United States made a clean sweep of the 1924 edition. Yet the real victors of the competition might well...
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