What Next?

In Bath there’s a great bookshop called Topping and Company in a part of town called the Paragon.  It’s slightly outside of the centre of town and so not a bookshop that I tend to walk past very often.  Monday happened to be one of those days when I do walk past it however and [...]

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The Beijing Olympic Games are Open!

I just watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games – visually it was spectacular, and I have always been a big fan of the Olympics, summer and winter. Although you could argue it’s just another tournament like so many others and that it’s being tainted by doping like so many others, I somehow [...]

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Obama’s Running Mate

I’m intrigued to see who Obama will pick as his running mate for the elections in November. I’m sure we’ve all been curious as to what has gone on during the recent Clinton – Obama meetings, with a number of people speculating that he’s going to propose the VP position to [...]

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The UN

This isn’t very TCK-related, but it’s essentially an international topic and it cracks me up. I found an article entitled “Why the United States just doesn’t get the United Nations”. The article’s kind of interesting, but what caught my attention was the second comment, at the bottom:

All very flowery, but why would we [...]

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What next – Iraq in the EU??

This is slightly old news, but a few weeks ago David Miliband, the UK’s foreign secretary, gave a speech in Bruges about his view on the future of the EU. One of his points was that he thinks that the expansion of the EU is key and that the border of the union shouldn’t be [...]

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