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Impressions of Guangzhou 2025
Posted on December 4, 2025 Leave a Comment
12 September Surrounded by Chinese people, I am among those of my ilk. I do not detect anywhere a sense of entitlement, instead an overall predisposition towards satisfaction with their lot. Proving again on this longish flight to Guangzhou. I could not be happier flying China Southern, official airline of Southern China, Guangzhou its major […]
The Tall Man by Chloe Hooper
Posted on June 4, 2024 Leave a Comment
A book that removed the bandage from modern Australia’s festering sore. In 2004 on Palm Island in Australia’s deep north, 36-year-old Cameron Doomadgee was arrested for swearing at a white police officer. Forty minutes later he lay dead in the jailhouse. Police said he tripped, but his ruptured liver could not be attributed to a […]
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