Showing posts with label independence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label independence. Show all posts
Thursday, 13 October 2016

King Mongkut and the saving of Thailand's independence and monarchy.

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Doesn't look anything like Yul Brunner David Bassett who taught me South East Asian history at Hull in the early 1980s hated the mu...
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Monday, 15 September 2014

...if you're going to leave please don't slam the door on the way out

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**** It's Saturday night, we're at one of the barrel-top tables in The George and we get to the moment in the evening when we talk...
Sunday, 8 June 2014

Ludovic Stur and the revival of Yorkshire identity - a nationalist romance

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This piece of modernist statuary is a memorial to Ludivic Stur - the words below the monument describe him as 'Slovensky Narodny B...
Friday, 9 May 2014

A thought on the end of England

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Norman Davies in his ' Vanished Kingdoms' speaks of the impermanence of states and at one point of Britain: "Having liv...
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Sunday, 16 March 2014

God gave us small hearts - the rebirth of nationalism

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**** For most of my life the 'direction of travel' (as the trendy term goes) has been towards supranationalism, towards the idea o...
Saturday, 15 February 2014

Independence? And why not!

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**** They tell o' lands wi' brighter skies, Where freedom's voices ne're rang; Gie me the hills where Ossian lies, And...
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Sunday, 7 July 2013

Tennis and politics...

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**** We all sat - the whole party full - cheering on Andy Murray (not that our cries will have reached Wimbledon from Bradford) as he beca...
Saturday, 2 April 2011

Conservative things...

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I’m a Conservative – a bit like Iggy Pop’s a conservative. I don’t see the need to change things that don’t need changing, I think that most...
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Monday, 7 February 2011

How the self-appointed enforcers of the big state are killing Big Society at birth

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I want to agree with Julian Dobson . I really do.   For most of the time he understands what Big Society is about. But then he goes and sp...
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Wednesday, 19 January 2011

For heaven's sake leave us alone! A comment on choice, freedom and independence.

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It struck me yesterday (while listening to the righteous discuss licensing and other matters at Council) that the idea of free choice, of...
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Monday, 10 May 2010

On sheep...

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Sheep. Trotting along dutifully behind whoever heads for the gap in the fence. Proferring received wisdom as if we'd just thought of it...
Sunday, 27 December 2009

A thought on morality (inspired by St Trinian's)

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*** Am surprisingly cheered by the moral message of “St Trinian ’s: the Treasure of the Frittons ”. But first this isn ’t a film review – th...
Monday, 30 November 2009

Independence for Yorkshire (excepts from the future archive)

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The recent announcement of "London-style powers" for Yorkshire (presumably without a "Boris-like" leader) comes close to...