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In his words: "I am just a professional writer, which means I don't do blogs and try and get money for whatever I write."

Prime Minister Theresa May discovered this on December 13, 2017, when her government suffered a major defeat as rebels from her own Conservative Party allied with the Labour Party and other Opposition parties to push through an amendment to Brexit legislation, the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, in the House of Commons.

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Cabbages & Kings: Crime, religion can't be clubbed

One of the more appropriate appointments made by British Prime Minister Theresa May (hem) was the promotion of Sajid...

28 July 2018 7:48 AM IST

The fact that Manchester Universitys student diversity officer and liberation and access officer initiate a move to erase If from their sight, will not result in Kiplings works disappearing from the history of literature. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

The students are absolutely within their rights to airbrush poems they don't want to see on the walls of what is their...

22 July 2018 1:15 AM IST

Students paint over Rudyard Kiplings poem If in protest at writers racism. (Photo: Pixabay)

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Cabbages & Kings: Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

Recent decoration of the building entailed inscribing Rudyard Kipling's poem, If, on one of the large round internal...

21 July 2018 7:57 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Erasing If' won't affect Kipling's work

Recent decoration of the building entailed inscribing Rudyard Kipling's poem, If, on one of the large round internal...

21 July 2018 7:57 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Chequers deal - A dead duck for UK?

Mr Davis has been in charge of the negotiations with the EU and knows the tenor of their concerns.

14 July 2018 6:59 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Of false premises & false promises

The Arabic word for virgin has been mistranslated.

7 July 2018 12:42 AM IST

Statistics reveal there are 90,000 widows and about 50,000 households headed by women in Sri Lanka after 26 years of violence, with no support and no resources. The study says they are vulnerable to sexual violence. (Representational image)

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Cabbages & Kings: Protect women just like you protect cows!

India, my brothers and sisters, is top of the list. It's the most dangerous country in the world for women.

30 Jun 2018 7:55 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Don't be taken in by fake news

Fake history in the service of some petty cause is easily exposed.

23 Jun 2018 12:20 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Persians & the Islamic state of Iran

The divisions between Shia and Sunni had been the cause of slaughter for hundreds of years.

19 Jun 2018 7:31 AM IST

Pre-Islamic Zoroastrianism was the official religion of Persia (now Iran) from 600 BC to 650 AD.

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Cabbages & Kings: Persians & the Islamic state of Iran

If there was a survey today in Iran, 80 per cent of people would say they want to follow the Zardushti religion.

16 Jun 2018 1:03 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Why no #MeToo in Bollywood?

The #MeToo movement has undoubtedly attracted some who reluctantly agreed to consensual sex to further their careers.

9 Jun 2018 1:17 AM IST

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Cabbages & Kings: Art often poses a real dilemma

This week the Metropolitan Police commissioner, Cressida Dick, issued a fatwa against a form of video-musical...

2 Jun 2018 7:32 AM IST