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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Thursday, 31 October 2024

British Peerages and Titles

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  The British House of Lords is the second biggest unelected second chamber in the world – after China! Britain’s archaic constitution of 16...
Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Scotland must move forward with new ideas

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  Scotland must move forward with new ideas from the tired, old arguments of the social left vs extreme right capitalism, all controlled fro...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

Democracy and Universal Suffrage

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It appears that the small island nation of Iceland led the way Iceland  is generally held to be the oldest Parliament, starting in 930. T...
Thursday, 31 January 2019

Nations Apart: Turbulent times

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Burns and Mozart both lived in times of huge turbulence - late 18 th  century. Burns 1759 - 1776. Mozart 1756 - 1791. Robert Burns  ret...
Friday, 28 September 2018

Paris Riots of '68: talk Edinburgh book festival 2018

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James McNaughtie  interviewed highly respected Scottish author  Neal Ascherson , at Edinburgh international book festival 2018,Iwho w...
Sunday, 11 June 2017

Macron's New Future

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Promises a new dawn in France of progressive socialism – business friendly, more democracy in Europe, based on a stronger vision and iden...
Saturday, 14 November 2015

Solidarite with France

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Sadly I know there are always nutcases and evil in the world and I know we need good security, I still don't believe bombs are an ans...
Thursday, 3 November 2011

Goa Xingjian

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Goa is from China, after speaking out against the cultural revolution he now lives in exile in France, in his Second Life.  As happened in R...