On Sunday I did the first leg of a walk along the North Downs Way/Pilgrims Way. It goes past Canterbury Cathedral and ends up at Dover. It starts in Farnham. There are 8 of us who do this walk – four couples – and we have just completed walking from the source of the Thames…
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The Local Elections in Iraq
by Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne • • 2 Comments
Resignations, possible replacements of ministers and increasing violence have hit already fragile Iraqi politics in the last few days. Officials say 110 people were killed in the latest violence. These are indeed difficult days. The Kurdistan Regional Government and the central government are at odds over issues including a swathe of disputed territory in north…
