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Politics is a concentrated expression of economics – Lenin. Image: public domain By Jim Aitken Venezuela’s oilis now America’s oil.That’s democracy!
Image by the author ‘The Last Olive Tree’ is an allegorical short story by Dr. Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi that captures the endurance of the human spirit in Gaza…
By Steve Pottinger This poem would like to make it clearthat it is here to subvert nothing whatsoever,here to challenge nothing at all, that it wouldnever ever…
Image by Steev Burgess Over the Rainbow On any given morning that the worldslaps hate into its blue selfin a sedated town overlooked by factories,that contain their…
Vienna City Hall Christmas Market By Dennis Broe Vienna has been voted the world’s most livable city for a long time, and although it still maintains that…
Jesus casting out the money changers from the Temple by Giotto, 14th century By Geoff Bottoms Just as the late Pope Francis completed the apostolic exhortation that…
The Picasso of our game By Mark Perryman OK England’s relationship with European football didn’t exactly begin well, in1955, the first European Cup. Chelsea, the First Division champions,…
In this edition of Our Culture, we turn to the prison system, one of the most hidden yet culturally rich spaces in Britain. Often seen only as…
