Anthony Slessor

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Posted: November 2010
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NATO Future

NATO’s Secretary General, the Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has said that NATO members must continue to be prepared for military operations outside their borders in the future...

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Posted: November 2010
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Palin as President

A week ago the British press revealed that Sarah Palin had openly declared that she is considering running for the Republican nomination to fight the next Presidential election in 2012...

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Posted: November 2010
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Defence Review

The journalist, Simon Jenkins, is advocating the complete, entire, total abolition of the Armed Forces. Despite having written some quite good stuff in the past, he now has utterly lost his marbles...

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Posted: August 2010
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Auschwitz

Took the time to visit Auschwitz which is 4 hours drive NE from Vienna. Much to say about it although, like some art exhibitions, its most powerful and long-lasting impact is barely discernible in the immediate term - I knew so much of the history and horror already that very little was totally new information...

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Posted: June 2010
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World Cup

Well, our over-paid prima donnas failed again. Two planes landed back in England on 29 June. One with 23 under-achieving, spoilt footballers, the other with 7 soldiers in boxes. Like our footballers, British soldiers are alpha males but they know how to work as a team because, if they don't, it isn't just a case of looking ridiculous in an international competition. They get blown up or shot...

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Posted: June 2010
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Bloody Sunday Inquiry

Yesterday the Saville Inquiry published its report on Bloody Sunday and this morning that venerable keeper of the public mores, Sir Max Hastings, has damned it on every front in the Daily Mail (what’s up with Max Hastings these days - Daily Mail, I ask you, it’s now his rag of choice)...

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