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• Derby shouts loud over Bombardier job losses

  By Russell Pollard on July 24, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Derby is a major manufacturing city in the UK and proudly boasts two very high profile employers in Rolls-Royce and Bombardier. These 2 companies provide a significant proportion of the jobs in the area either directly, or indirectly, through the… Read More ›

• Blackpool: Kitsch and Chips for the British holidaymaker

  By Russell Pollard on July 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Blackpool is the quintessential British holiday resort, home of the piers, the Tower and the Pleasure Beach. It represents family holiday and personal solitude. The alluring aroma that wafts across Talbot Street is undeniably the signature scent of Blackpool which… Read More ›

• Belfast : a City on the Edge

  By Russell Pollard on July 16, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Although in modern times we automatically accept that Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and do not necessarily see this as a curiosity, it is, after all, an integral part of another country’s land. If it was Northern… Read More ›

• English Defence League (EDL) : Who is stereotyping who?

  By Russell Pollard on July 10, 2011 • ( 1 )

  “Stereotypes are devices for saving a biased person the trouble of learning” The EDL demonstration in Cambridge on 9th July 2011 was generally a very peaceful affair, and any commotion was no more than you would expect from a few… Read More ›

• Mass photography at demonstrations is in danger of becoming an unwitting agent provocateur

  By Russell Pollard on July 2, 2011 • ( 0 )

  Over the last few years the rise in relatively cheap, but professional standard, digital cameras, and free and cheap publication of images on the internet has fuelled the evolution of the freelance/citizen/amateur photojournalist. Some would say that this has liberated… Read More ›

• Nagorno-Karabagh: Peace talks turn to sabre rattling

  By Russell Pollard on June 27, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  MORE ARTICLES ON ARTSAKH / NAGORNO-KARABAKH Peace talks led by the Kremlin, between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan were held on 24th June 2011 in Kazan with the objective of securing agreement on the basic principles of a Nagorno-Karabagh conflict settlement…. Read More ›

• Hobbies: stay in your “hamster-wheel” of conformity.

  By Russell Pollard on June 26, 2011 • ( 0 )

  There have been a number of reports about the “flaparratti” or “twitchers” – these are the extremist end of the bird watching fraternity. Members of this community whose sole aim seems to be to spot, record, document and brag about… Read More ›

• Sluts in the City: What not to wear?

  By Russell Pollard on June 12, 2011 • ( 0 )

  There were 2 events in London on June 11th 2011 which in different ways made some comment on the subject of how to dress in public, or not as the case may be. Having spent most of the day watching… Read More ›

• What does it mean to be Armenian?

  By Russell Pollard on June 8, 2011 • ( 8 )

  On my second visit to Armenia a year ago, I asked the innocent question of my Armenian friend – “What does it mean to be Armenian?” – after a pause, her response, was “It’ll take a lifetime to find out”…. Read More ›

• Vera Grigorian and the lost soldiers of the Karabakh War

  By Russell Pollard on June 4, 2011 • ( 1 )

  Buried in the backstreets of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabagh, Vera Grigorian of the Union of Relatives of Warriors Missing in Action works tirelessly to continue to promote the cause of those families who still have no closure on the… Read More ›

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