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I am a Lymphoedema Sister
Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift ...
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Rhodri Marsden These cuddly high-street banks certainly dont fool me
For reasons sufficiently mundane for me to have just typed them out, read them back and deleted them, I had to pay a cheque for 9.72 into my bank account last week. This necessitated a rare trip to the ...
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Stuart Halls brave victims have been through hell for nothing
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Miliband needs to hold out against EU referendum
Ed Miliband will match David Cameron's pledge to hold an In/Out referendum on EU membership by the end of 2017 is little more than part of an absorbing electoral chess game. And judged like that, the answer for many spectators - inside as well as outside the Labour Party - is fairly obvious. Is Miliband really prepared to put up with the repeated taunts from Cameron that the People's ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch If Syria was on everyone’s mind why was no one talking about it
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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A Night to Dismember [DVD]
Only the most ardent exploitation and fringe cinema fanatics would argue that Doris Wishman is a good filmmaker in any sense of the word, but she is nothing if not opportunistic. Having gotten her start in 1960 by jumping on the nudist-exploitation bandwagon early in the cycle with Hideout in the Sun, the self-taught filmmaker became one of the most prolific independent female producer-dir ... ...
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The first world war was far from futile | Gary Sheffield
Passchendaele, 1917. 'This was not a cabinet war but an existential struggle, just as much a war of national survival for the British as the second world war.' Photograph: IWM/Getty Images/IWM via Getty ...
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Bono cant help Africans by stealing their voice | George Monbiot
It was bad enough in 2005. Then, at the G8 summit in Scotland, Bono and Bob Geldof heaped praise on Tony Blair and George Bush, who were still mired in the butchery they had initiated in Iraq. At one point Geldof appeared, literally and figuratively, to be sitting in Tony Blair's lap. African activists accused them of drowning out a campaign for global justice with a campaign for ...
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Editorial Don’t give up on the Co-op model
The Co-op bank was the great hope for those seeking an alternative to bonus-obsessed banking. It claimed to be owned by, and acting on behalf of, its members, rather than slick-haired traders and hedge funds. Unlike its rapacious cousins in London, it refused to invest in "unethical" businesses and was based in Manchester, far from the hard-nosed glass and steel edifices of Canary ...
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Editorial Talk of arming Syria’s rebels is dangerous
If only the terrible conflict in Syria were a simple case of good versus evil, a freedom movement challenging a dictatorship, then it would be easy to know what to do. The world has watched in horror for three years as that unhappy country has torn itself apart at horrendous human cost. An estimated 93,000 people have been killed, and a million refugees have spilled across Syria's ...
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Who is your person of the year 2012
Contributed by : Carol Gould First published December 12, 2012This has not been a happy few months for me; as soon as Israel is in the news I find myself in the firing line in various fora or having to take an extra aspirin to avoid a fatal heart attack listening to enraged Zionist-haters venting their thinly-disguised Jew-hatred on radio and television. What an irony! My parents never sent ...
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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.
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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.
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