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Delhi and London: learning to share the streets | Andrew Duff
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Press for ‘Sikkim’. India through its railways. Echoes of Empire →. June 20, 2013 · 8:40 am. Delhi and London: learning to share the streets. The Indian Quarterly is an excellent new magazine published by Madhu Jain. I contributed an article for the third edition, out now – available below. DELHI’S FUTURE: SHARING THE STREETS? But genuine transformation will only come from radical thinking and openness to ideas from around the world. Perhaps the wisdom of the Manasara Shilpa Shastra will once again i...
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Your Freedom and Ours: March 2015
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Thursday, March 26, 2015. Later on I went to the launch of a joint report by the Bow Group. And a new Austrian think-tank, Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikanalyse. ÖGP) on the subject of abuse, much of it physical, that Muslim women face in the UK. A Parallel World - Confronting the abuse of many Muslim women in Britain today. Last Saturday but, miraculously, freely available on the internet. It seems to be a summary of her latest book that was due out in the States earlier this week. Her the...
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The ‘Multirole’ Joint Strike Fighter and the ‘lead weight’ tied to its tail – William Forbes's Blog
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William Forbes's Blog. The ‘Multirole’ Joint Strike Fighter and the ‘lead weight’ tied to its tail. A Lesson from World War II. The HS2 is the ‘lead weight‘ on plans to increase the UK’s industrial productivity ;. On plans to solve the UK’s energy crisis it is the wind farm virus ;. And on plans to project military power overseas it is Carrier-Strike. The Origin of the JSF’s ‘Lead Weight’. The A-10, the ‘Warthog’, the greatest CAS aircraft ever. F/A-18 Super Hornet, for some an alternative to the F-35C.
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Uncategorized – William Forbes's Blog
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William Forbes's Blog. Boris: A Happy Coincidence. The sudden availability of the late Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, the Brexit’s principal spokesman and, for a short time, candidate Leader of the Conservative Party, together with the Prime Minister’s decision to postpone yet again the decision on London’s airport expansion, is directly relevant to the post that appeared on the Blog yesterday. Showed the way why was it discarded? The Plan in Brief. Plan a New Town south of Manston and east of Canterbur...
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Your Freedom and Ours: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Well, yes, I had intended to write various pieces in this week about Greece, Sweden and Russia as well as the bizarre choice of Briton of the Year by the once august newspaper now an absolute rag, the Times. But, somehow, time has gone by and I decided to end the year with a few episodes from one of the greatest of all anti-Communist films, Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three. Enough, already. Go and find the film. What else can I add to the last posting of 2014? Briton of the ye...
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Your Freedom and Ours: Olympic news
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Saturday, August 1, 2015. Readers of this blog may be aware of the fact that I am not a great supporter of highly expensive, seriously corrupt international sporting events. In fact, the woes of FIFA made me laugh before muttering that I was shocked, shocked. When will similar woes reach the other appalling organization, the IOC? Oh, I hear you cry, what of the London Games of 2012? My own memory of those weeks is an almost completely empty city with endless groups of people in preposterous pink and purp...
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The Main Point: On Simin Behbahani, an Unacknowledged Legislator of Iran
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Observations on culture and politics, news, photos, missives from friends . Thursday, August 21, 2014. On Simin Behbahani, an Unacknowledged Legislator of Iran. A fine tribute this week by Sohrab Ahmari on the poet Simin Behbahani, dubbed the Lioness of Tehran. She was 82, nearly blind, but the regime still felt compelled to slap a travel ban upon her. Born in 1927 in Tehran, at the dawn of the Pahlavi dynasty, she published her first poem at age 14. Persian poetry was at the time undergoing a revolu...
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The Main Point: January 2015
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Observations on culture and politics, news, photos, missives from friends . Sunday, January 25, 2015. Nathan Rothschild famously quipped, "Buy when there is blood in the streets," but he never said anything about what to do when firebombs are thrown at Greek riot police, and there's a trillion dollar easing of the money supply. H/t to Andy Kessler. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Hunter S. Thompson. Fred Wilson, A VC. NY Review of Books. Rose Beyond the Thames.
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The Main Point: December 2012
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Observations on culture and politics, news, photos, missives from friends . Wednesday, December 26, 2012. Getting Home". a Missive from India by Anuradha Roy. Earlier this week I asked my friend the novelist and publisher Anuradha Roy about the recent protests over the gang sex attack in Delhi. She offered this account, and then gave her permission to publish it here:. For background, an early account of the attack in Delhi last week, here. About Anuradha Roy and her work here. Links to this post. The Ar...
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Your Freedom and Ours: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015. Oh that sense of déjà vu. There will be many arguments for staying in the EU but you can bet your bottom dollar that we shall see this one over and over again: The UK has a vital role to play in shaping the future of Europe. Now is not the time to turn our backs. We must stay in the EEC, we were told officially and unofficially in 1975 because that is the only way it can be turned into a democratic structure. How did that turn out, I wonder. Monday, July 27, 2015. That, perhaps, t...
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