war minus the shooting
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Songsmith Timmy Thomas pleads for peace
Here's a question which never grows old. It came back to me recently. I was watching the news, images of war, theft, violence, bullying and plain old nastiness when I realised that I had had enough. Who wants to see this? I needed a break. I turned on the radio. The intro began and I knew it immediately : "Why can't we live together" by Timmy Thomas. It felt like it was playing right off my inner juke-box. It was an old song suddenly new. The work of a true songsmith.
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Sporting confrontations : war minus the shooting?
This next travel tale has a sporting flavour. A fight on a station platform at Greenwich between rival football supporters recalls George Orwell's connection between sport and war. What can this fight tell us about territory, identity and the sense of belonging in these war-driven times?
