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Tinderbox

I’m sorry, but the reporting and commentary on the BBC news this evening was shocking. Knowing nothing about the identity of the attackers, we learn that France must ask itself whether it has got its approach to immigration right. Now rolling commentary on communal tensions. But who’s to say the perpetrators aren’t natives, self radicalised …

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Redefining terrorism

I was wondering why yesterday’s suicide bombing in Istanbul disappeared from the front pages of our newspapers. Then I realised: it was apparently carried out by Marxists. So that’s all right then. The redefinition of terrorism goes on.

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Youthful despair

There’s nothing new about these insecurities. Perhaps what’s different is that the folklore of this generation – the standard narrative in novels, films, TV shows and magazines – provides a hopeless caricature of relationships, reducing them to animalistic mating rituals: man and woman meet in a bar/restaurant/post-nuclear holocaust/alien invasion, and an hour later jump into …

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I purchased Anker’s Wireless Keyboard and Optical Mouse from Amazon at the end of December, primarily for use with a Surface Pro 3. The Surface Pro 3, of course, is billed as the tablet that can replace your laptop, but for reasons known only to them, Microsoft sell the Type Cover as an optional extra for an …

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To be alive again

No new resolutions for me, but a reminder for my daily living… What does it mean to believe? “And vie one with another for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who ward off evil; Those who spend of that which God …

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