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Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Satire: "Angela Merkel, Your boys took a hell of a beating!"

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In an upset, South Korea defeated World Cup holders Germany 2-0 in a final match of Group F in Kazan on June 27 th 2018, knocking the...
Tuesday, 26 June 2018

The Saudi-Egyptian Rivalry - How a Football Match Reflected Geopolitical Power Relations

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The defeat of the Egyptian national football team by their Saudi Arabian counterparts in the 2018 World Cup can be viewed as a metapho...
Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Volgograd - The World Cup host city and its historical importance

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The ‘Motherland Calls’ statue on Mamayev Kurgan overlooking Volgograd which commemorates the ‘Battle of Stalingrad’. The World Cup fo...
Saturday, 16 June 2018

A Football Match and a reminder of 'The Kaliningrad Question'

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I must confess to have been temporarily dumbstruck when perusing a World Cup brochure a few weeks ago upon discovering that the Nigeria...
Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Memories of the Volvo 164

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Volvo 164 - 1969-1970 UK Market Sales Brochure My Father bought a royal blue version of this Volvo model in 1973 as a replacement f...
Friday, 8 June 2018

Nigeria’s First Military Coup: My Father as a Witness to History (2)

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Sub-Lieutenant Emmanuel Oladipo Makinde (centre of photograph) stands behind Commodore J.E.A. Wey (seated in naval summer white shirt) ...
Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Putin's Endgame in Syria: Victory or Stalemate?

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Vladimir Putin (Oil Painting by Varvara Stylidou, 2010) In a recent article for Foreign Policy magazine, Jonathan Spyer, a research...