Trevor Royle on why the spy claim reveals deeper divisions
The Georgians are the Irish of the Caucasus. They are proud, high-minded, independent, prone to take offence, and when in a scrap they generally give as good as they get. Most of the time they think of themselves as poets...
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Trevor Royle on a president at odds with the world
Every year, as late summer gives way to the deep red and gold of a New England fall, world leaders get the chance to spend a few days schmoozing in New York. The United Nations gets back to business this...
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IF you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the little red book and those cute Mao button badges that were such useful fashion accessories for those of an agitprop tendency back in the seventies. Thirty years after Mao Zedong’s death,...
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Trevor Royle on the plight of the Palestinians struggling to survive in the Gaza Strip
Either by accident or design, while events in southern Lebanon were grabbing the headlines all over the world everyone seemed to forget the plight facing the Palestinians in Gaza. In the same period over 200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed...
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