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Open mike 15/06/2025
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The West’s war on Iran
I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was the very start of my writing career. The second time was in 2018 and part of my interest was to get a sense of…
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Open mike 14/06/2025
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Daily review 13/06/2025
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Open mike 13/06/2025
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Daily review 12/06/2025
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Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win
Opinion and analysis: In April, I wrote about My Food Bag Co-Founders James and Cecilia Robinson telehealth organisation, Tend, and its chances of securing government contracts. An industry contact wrote this in response to me at the time [interpretation theirs] - “Health procurement doesn’t work…
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The other Jacinda Book
Jacinda's book has now been released. It has attracted many accolades but also a disturbing amount of hate. I am still amazed that someone as gentle as Jacinda should attract such opprobrium. It is almost as if some people are terrified at the prospect of…
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Open mike 12/06/2025
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Daily review 11/06/2025
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Open mike 11/06/2025
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Daily review 10/06/2025
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The Thunberg dilemma
The problem was always going to be that the Israeli Defence Force has better PR. Here's what I saw play out on twitter and with a bit of a foray into MSM (Guardian etc). Activists including Greta Thunberg took a boat across the Mediterranean, ostensibly…
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Open mike 10/06/2025
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Daily review 09/06/2025
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Open mike 09/06/2025
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