Category: history
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Moles Poem
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Moles I must keep a close watch on the mole-hills clustered around the fences of my house. I feel sure there’ll come a time when moles will emerge from those surprisingly massive eruptions of earth they’ve created – and each will be carrying binoculars and waving a flag. And the flags will not be white…
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Putin’s Mind
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It is hard to put yourself in Putin’s mind. But how hard ? Is it impossible ? Maybe not. He looks out at the world and is much concerned with maintaining control and his own footing and security there. Consequently, he has always been pre-occupied with strengthening and extending borders, creating safe distance between him…
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How to Speak in Times of Clamour
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A long time ago, I went away to Greece and spent three months there alone in a hut, facing the rock pictured above. By now, I had lived a youth and much of an adulthood and this was a time for reflection, in case I could make some sense of all that living, never to…