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Two groups of brave men
Here’s a comment on a blog post by Oliver Brett at the BBC: I am a proud son of a proud Afghan nation, and nothing and no one has made me and my fellow Afghans more proud than the extraordinary...
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What Obama means by “troop pullout”
The NYT today: As the United States military prepares to leave Iraq by the end of 2011, the Obama administration is planning a remarkable civilian effort, buttressed by a small army of contractors, to...
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Farewell, Cedric
Cedric the Tasmanian Devil has died. Or perhaps I should say, Cedric has been killed. He was deliberately introduced to Devil Facial Tumour Disease, an aggressively infectious, fatal cancer that is...
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Truth and truthiness
I’m really disappointed by this. Colin Percival is a fine computer scientist. In a blog post titled In Defence of Truth he wrote the following: Surely, I thought, policy decisions must be guided by...
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A social service
esr on carrying a gun: “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” Intervention by armed civilians on the spot aborts hundreds of crimes a year in the United States, and thousands more...
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Putin peace
So Vladimir Putin has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Fair enough. Obama was awarded one for not being George W Bush and thereby bringing the world peace. Mr Putin is the peace he’s brought to...
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Taking responsibility with Owen Jones
Ominously, Libya’s chaos is spilling across the region. The country is awash with up to 15 million rifles and other weapons, and a report by the UN panel of experts this month found that “Libya has...
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