There is a tension that exists between sport and culture being used as a bridge to countries with very different politics and social policy to our own, and using sport and culture to pressure those c… (View Post)

So does the British government. Alongside the CIA we provided a lot of covert financial and military support to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan during Mrs Thatcher's premiership. In 1987 we even s… (View Post)

I am sure that Britain welcomes refugees fleeing such an awful place. Doesn't it? (View Post)

It looks like the battle between the Centaurs and the Lapiths, after the Centaurs got drunk at a wedding and kidnapped some young Lapith women. It's one of the themes of the Parthenon marbles in… (View Post)

A friend of mine worked in Port Moresby for a couple of years in the Eighties. It was rather edgy, sufficient to make his next assignment in Johannesburg seem like light relief. (View Post)