Little Letterhole: Footballers can’t use ignorance as an excuse
MESUT Özil doesn’t talk about politics, at least according to an interview he gave with the Süddeutsche Zeitung last year.Continue Reading
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When we were refugees: Anglo-Saxons on the Black Sea
Whether fleeing civil war in Syria, or political oppression in Africa, the right-wing media has met refugees with scorn. This is in contrast to a past of English people both welcoming and being refugees.
Komnenian reputation: Erdoğan’s Byzantine approach
The increasingly autocratic President of Turkey has been compared to an Ottoman Sultan, but in the relationship with his NATO allies Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is closer to a much older tradition.
