Author name: Hugh McManners

Prosecuting Old Soldiers in Northern Ireland

Why don’t the people of Northern Ireland protest against these attempts to prosecute British Army pensioners?  Apart from the injustice, it risks destabilising a fragile peace?  So here’s why they should: We’re told the Republican community in Northern Ireland require justice for what they believe to have been crimes committed by British soldiers. These prosecutions

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Cold Weather: Fairbanks and Oxford

  It’s been properly winter cold here in Oxford England- after a great summer and mild autumn.  Which means the temperature dropped just below zero…   But today our Oxford weather’s reverted to being the usual mild – specifically: cloudy at plus 7 degrees centigrade. Whereas in Fairbanks Alaska, it’s clear and sunny at minus 28 degrees centigrade. I’ve

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Trading Places 2: Green Politics and Keeping Warm in Fairbanks Alaska and Oxford (England)

Green Party Lights in Alaska In both Fairbanks and Oxford, environmental issues are important. For Oxfordonians the interest is indirect, academic (and caring), whereas Fairbanks is surrounded by vulnerable tundra. The East Oxford Council ward where I live, had until a few years ago, an impressive Green party representation. At one point every councillor in our ward

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