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.
Saturday 14 August 2010
Antemurale Christianitatis
A fascinating piece on From Our Own Correspondent, setting the scene for this week's Crossing Continents. The way in was Medjugorje, of which the less said, the better. But the real story was that, of the numerous flags flying there, none is that of the state in which it is located. Truly, there can be no one on earth more rueful than the Croats of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the land that Izetbegovic and Ganic built.
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