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Chatham House: South Korea rethinks its foreign policy: Is it ditching the US for China?
The Chatham House meeting discusses South Korea’s foreign policy under President Lee Jae-myung, emphasizing a pragmatic approach amid complex global dynamics. Key challenges include managing relationships with the U.S., China, and North Korea. The panel examines how the Lee administration navigates geopolitical tensions and seeks to maintain strong international alliances while adapting to rapid changes. Continue reading
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Chatham House: One year of Syria’s transition: Progress, challenges and prospects
PHOTO: The new Syrian Government Today’s Chatham House meeting is chaired by Raya Jalabi, Middle East Correspondent, Financial Times. On the panel are: Dr Haid Haid, MENA Programme, Rime Allaf, Syrian writer, formerly Chatham House and Dr Ibrahim Al-Assil, Belfer Center, Harvard University. It is a year since the rapid disintegration of President Assad’s government… Continue reading
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Olivia Dean – So Easy (To Fall In Love)
The author reflects on discovering British singer Olivia Dean, noting her impressive 44 million Spotify listeners and the quality of her song “So Easy (To Fall In Love).” This experience challenges the author’s previous perception of British music, highlighting Dean’s contribution to the global music scene amidst a focus on American pop. Continue reading
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Wez G inviting Taylor Swift to Tintern Abbey, using Wordsworth’s seductive poetic influence…
When Taylor Swift was due to come to the U.K. on her #ErasTour last year, as ever, I was tweeting my love to her like crazy lol. #AI was getting a lot of buzz at the time and I thoought I’d put ChatGPT to the test with a bit of creative suggestion to it. I’d… Continue reading
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Review: Queens of the Crusades – by Alison Weir
I had previously read Alison Weir’s most excellent book specifically on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine many years ago so the author was familiar to me. I chanced upon this title in my local library (Caldicot) and thought I’d give it a go. It covers the lives of several British Queens, or rather the historical period… Continue reading
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Erdoğan’s Third Term as President of Turkey and What It Means
On May 28th 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was giving a victory speech to the excited Turkish masses, who had democratically elected him to a third term as President of Turkey. He achieved 52.2% of the vote in the second round of elections compared with the 47.8% of the challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Prior to the election… Continue reading
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Review: Defending The Realm – MI5 and The Shayler Affair – by Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding
This is just another one of the many books I’ve read on the security services / spies / intelligence agencies in general. I guess I have a morbid fascination. Non-fiction throws up some pretty weird stuff – Life itself is a lot stranger than fiction. This tale from a turncoat ex MI5 employee David Shayler,… Continue reading
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Review: The Assault On Truth – Boris Johnson and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism – by Peter Oborne
I think everyone that has ever heard of Boris Johnson associates him with lies. Oborne, who is an established veteran political journalist, in this relatively brief text, exposes the extent of the former Conservative Prime Minister’s almost total aversion to the truth. He reckons Johnson has told over thousands of lies and although the scope… Continue reading
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Review: We May Win We May Lose – by Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan
Jim ‘Shaft’ Ryan is a famous house music DJ from Birmingham who along with his brothers, Mick and Dermot, and their mate Lee, responsible for the seminary U.K. and global nightclub brands, Miss Moneypennys and Chuff Chuff. Jim is also my mate. I knew that Jim had trained as a Catholic priest before becoming entangled… Continue reading
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Review: Rights of Man – by Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine is an important writer at an important time that bequeaths us in his ‘Rights of Man’ a fundamental shakeup of what our democratic rights as citizens should be, drawing especially on the French Revolution and also American Revolution and the fundamental rights that their new revolutionary societies produced for their citizens. Paine delivers… Continue reading
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