Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 28 January 2009
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Still hardly any coverage of the unrest in Madagascar. The fourth-largest island in the world is populous (and increasingly so), is strategically placed (both as Africa emerges and as we have to deal with Indian Ocean piracy), and was British until 1890. But we now have no embassy in that country, to which we now pay no overseas aid. We will be sorry, and sooner rather than later.
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