How I ran away to Italy
A quarter of a century ago I somehow managed to get out of Paris where I had haunted a cheap…
Permanent stalemate in Gaza suits Netanyahu
Jerusalem After midnight on Thursday is dead-time for the Israeli media. The weekend editions have gone to print (newspapers don’t…
Why Latvia is expelling its Russian speakers
Riga, Latvia At the age of 74, Inessa Novikova, who is ethnically Russian, was told she had to learn Latvian…
Please stop clapping at funerals
The Happy Clappies – evangelical Christians who clap along to worship songs during church services – have been around since…
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