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Category Archives: life

Barber’s Adagio for Vietnam

16 Mar

Samuel Barber’s adagio for strings featured in Oliver Stone’s 1986 film, Platoon, set in what Westerners refer to as the Vietnam War, and Vietnamese of my age and above call – with no quarrel from me – America’s War of … Read More »

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For Cod’s sake – stop this madness!

22 Feb

Yesterday I wrote of Ecuador’s bananas. The same day, the Daily Mail was warning Britons of further fallout from Putin’s totally unprovoked war on plucky Ukraine. A war which, as the above photographic proof clearly shows, Zelensky is winning hands … Read More »

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France wages war on “disinformation”

19 Feb