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Ana the Imp
Ana the Imp is really just my mirror, a kind of dialogue with myself, ranging over a huge variety of subjects. The chief focus is on history, a...
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The Eye of the People
Ana the Imp ― Last week the Chinese National Bureau of Corruption Prevention issued a statement saying that 72.7 per cent of the population was satisfied with progress the government was making on tackling corruption, an endemic problem in the country. It caused a... (more)
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Strasbourg Flips the Bird
Ana the Imp ― I flip the bird right back! Is the lottery a disappointment to you? You’ve played for an age, for years, perhaps, and those big bucks are always just beyond your reach. Ah, but, you see, luck is such a fickle and elusive thing. Rather than... (more)
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The Protocols of New Labour
Ana the Imp ― My recent observation that I thought the Labour Party a conspiracy against the people of this country caused a minor ripple on Twitter. I’m inspired, inspired to make the indictment even heavier by reviving a piece I wrote a couple of years ago.... (more)
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A Rattling Good Yarn
Ana the Imp ― It began with a ship wreck. The year is 1120. The vessel in question is the White Ship, leaving France for England, setting sail in the dark on a late November night. All on board were in a party mood, including, according to some accounts, the... (more)
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Polly of the Manor; a tale of Modern Labour
Ana the Imp ― The Lady of the Socialist ManorI’ve been catching up with Dominic Sandbrook’s three-part telly series on Britain in the mid1970s on iPlayer. It’s a visual accompaniment to his recently published Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974... (more)
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A Frightful Fiend
Ana the Imp ― Look at this picture. Can you guess who or what it is? No? Well I’ll tell you – it’s the new face of Greek democracy! His name is George Germenis, a black metal rocker, although he uses the stage name ‘Kaiadas’, after the chasm where... (more)
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Love Lost and Won – an American Destiny
Ana the Imp ― Westward Ho!There is one invariable symptom of a nation entering into senescence and decline: it begins to place a negative value on the past. Things that were once noble and good are re-examined and reappraised in the light of contemporary concerns... (more)
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Laughing in the Face of Absurdity
Ana the Imp ― Burn the Witch!I hugely admire Nick Cohen, a journalist and author of fearless integrity. He is one of those people almost impossible to classify politically. On the face of it he belongs to the left, but that has not stopped him from voicing the... (more)
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An Never Ending Story
Ana the Imp ― Robert Caro, an American author, has not long published The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. It’s an exhaustive biography of the former president, but it’s also exhausting; for this is volume four and it’s not finished yet. It... (more)
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Old Soldiers Never Die
Ana the Imp ― With voting in the presidential election scheduled to begin on 23 May, Egypt is descending ever deeper into anarchy and faction. There have been violent clashes recently with protesters in Cairo and Alexandria, during which journalists were attacked... (more)
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Daria and I
Ana the Imp ― If you were a cartoon character, who would you be? This is a question I addressed myself to recently. I did not have to hesitate before answering. There is only one choice for me – Daria! Daria, if you’ve never heard her, is the eponymous... (more)
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Obama’s Creeping Tyranny
Ana the Imp ― I love America. It’s like a second home to me. We have close family friends in south-west Georgia, people I’ve been visiting on and off since I was a child. They live in the old Georgia, semi-rural Georgia, a town surrounded by cotton fields,... (more)
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Bye, Bye, King Newt
Ana the Imp ― I was so glad on Saturday, so glad that, against all the odds, against a tidal wave of electoral hostility flowing over the Conservatives, Boris Johnson prevailed in the London race. I was even gladder, though, to hear Ken Livingstone’s final... (more)
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A Question of Equivocation
Ana the Imp ― I don’t watch a lot of television. In fact I hardly watch it at all; I don’t even have a television set in my rooms at college. When I’m in London or elsewhere there is just far too much to do, places to go, people to see, books to read,... (more)
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1812 and all that
Ana the Imp ― What great event in history happened in 1812? I put this question at the weekend to people I know, all history alumni, mostly English though there were also a couple of Germans in the group. It was by way of experiment, you see. Almost everyone... (more)
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