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Riyadh: Friday 16th December, 2011 (2nd Post)
The comments by Monsieur François Baroin, the head of the French Central Bank, stating that any downgrade of the French Economy’s AAA Credit Rating should be preceded by a similar downgrade of the...
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Republic and Ideas: France and America
Riyadh: Monday 14th May 2012 In my last post, France: Power, Statehood and Ideas, I suggested that the essence of French notions of nationhood lay in its self perception that it embodies a form of...
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Modernity and Ideas: France and the Future
Centre Pompidou in Paris, France: Taken from Sacre Coeur Basilica on Montmartre at sunset in November. Note, in the background(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Tuesday 15th May 2012 In my last two...
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Where will the young upwardly-mobile and European go to find work and love?
View of the Tagus estuary from Belém. Lisbon, Portugal. Français : Vue de l’embouchure du Tage depuis la tour de Belém. Lisbonne, Portugal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Wednesday 16th May 2012...
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Is there a future for the UK? (Part 2: The Two United Kingdoms: Global and...
A Britain United in Snow: Satellite image of snow-covered Great Britain on 7 January 2010 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Friday 15th June 2012 In this, the second of my series of posts about the...
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When “What if?” becomes “If Only!” The perils and inevitability of the...
Neville Chamberlain (Photo credit: Irregular Shed) What would have happened if the Appeasement policy followed by the United Kingdom during the 1930′s had been abandoned earlier? Riyadh: Sunday 8th...
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How will we come to be known? The name future generations will give to our...
Government debt as percentage of GDP globally. (2009 estimates) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Monday 12th November 2012: I have read recently various sources using the term, ‘The Great Recession,’...
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The Story of Fairness: Part 4: Fairness and Job’s
David Lloyd George: The Peoples Budget changed the direction of liberal thought. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Wednesday 5th December 2012: In his book, Civilization, The West and The Rest, the...
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Geopolitical Realities: Part 1: Obama, Britain & The EU
Schengen Agreement (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Riyadh: Saturday 19th January 2013 No one who has followed American politics for the last 18 months can be in any doubt that President Obama cuts a slightly...
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Freedom and ‘The Dictatorship of the Majority’
World map showing the 2008 (based in 2007 data) countries considered “electoral democracies” (in blue), according to American organization Freedom House. Reference: Freedom in the World 2010; Freedom...
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