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According to the BBC, the Foreign Office minister Kim Howells believes that the UK and Saudi Arabia have shared values1 and that the two kingdoms ought to unite around these purported shared values. Excuse me? According to the U.S. Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Report 2006 for Saudi Arabia, “Islam is the official religion,…
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Several days ago, I experienced a spine-chilling thrill, a rupture of Apocalyptic proportions, to wit, an alimentary orgasm. And what induced this Scriptural response? An artichoke. In need of groceries, I set foot in a Sainsbury’s for the first time, place where I would encounter my mythical artichoke; none of the shops I usually frequent…
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Before coming to Europe, I was an admirer of all things european. Effortlessly, I would declare ‘Europe is 50 years ahead of America in terms of morals’ as well as other europhile axioms chanted by rote. On the tour bus in Brussels, when we reached the EU parliament, a small French girl pointed at a…
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I’m in Amsterdam at the moment. I can’t say that I’m too keen on this city. Is it just or is the seedy underbelly of this city fueled by foreigners? For it seems that those offering drugs are either Afro-Caribbean or eastern europeans. Moreover, the salacious women offering themselves were squwaking in Spanish. While the…
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Una noche fría autumnal acompañada de té (Earl Grey), una que otra galleta y la música de Sufjan Stevens. Antípoda apósita a aquellas noches de invierno seis año atrás; una mezcla de agua, oscuridad: abismo primordial.
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“to increase in number and make our cities more populous, would it not seem absurd, the cause of the evil being evident and the remedy being in our own hands?º 7 For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they…
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The iPhone was introduced to-day, how exciting! (other European carriers are to be announced throughout the week, i.e., German and French) The revolutionary iPhone will be released on the 9th of November in the UK. It will retail for £269 (inc VAT), which is about $535 (the iPhone retails for $399 in the US). Also,…
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The past couple of weeks have been punctuated by intense moments of hilarity and idiocy. The libertarian-values-espousing and self-styled newspaper Economist declared that it was time for Belgium to call it a day as “the country has become a freak of nature, a state in which power is so devolved that government is an abhorred…
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Whenever I set before myself the task of writing, I am unable to proceed. It is as if all inspiration is withdrawn and the opacous dell of my mind, that dark and damp abyss where imagination resides and ideas are generated is razed. Perhaps it would be pertinent to beg inspiration of the Muses, those…
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