Martin's View

A blog mainly about politics, both domestic and international. For those who are seeking safe passage between the extremes.

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Lockerbie: business as usual

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It was sometime in 1992 when the tape arrived on my desk. Before the days of plug-in hard disks and easy-use PCs, data would be recorded ont...
Wednesday, 22 July 2009

Television Licensing

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WARNING: THIS PROPERTY IS UNLICENSED To the Legal Occupier, We're writing to inform you that we have authorised Enforcement Officers to ...
Friday, 5 June 2009

The Crisis of Politics in the United Kingdom

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In his book, The Great Crash 1929 , the economist J.K. Galbraith makes the observation that embezzlement is the one crime with a time lag. ...
Thursday, 30 April 2009

Mumbai elections - the Excluded Vote

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By Mumbaikar Election Day is finally here. And no , I did not vote. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I was not allowed to. My name...
Sunday, 5 April 2009

Day Trip to Jerusalem

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It has to be said from the start. Our guide was a complete racist. From when we first past the Arab village outside Caesarea, the first comm...
Monday, 9 March 2009

Writing Again.

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It’s rather alarming how quickly one can become institutionalised. From October I have been travelling; mostly between Edinburgh and Aberde...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009

A Little Story of Shame

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It’s a fair walk from the top of Carmel, dropping down almost 500m from the top of the mountain to the main coastal highway running south to...
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