By William J. Furney Britain’s beaches may be packed with people, in a country with the world’s second-highest coronavirus death toll, while Spain’s will only tomorrow start opening up and
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Category: Reportage
A Rude Sahara Sandstorm Diversion That Went Viral
By William J. Furney I am wondering if it’s possible that I’m sitting across the narrow aisle from the most annoying person in the world. In a blaring brash voice,
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What a Sight: Mystical Men and Magical Machines
By William J. Furney Half an hour before heading to the airport for a flight to Istanbul, I realised I didn’t have a visa and my passport was invalid. It
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Spain Must Free Catalonian Independence Prisoners to Restore Order
By William J. Furney, in Barcelona It’s past midnight on Monday in the Catalonian capital Barcelona, where nine independence leaders were jailed by the Spanish Supreme Court earlier in the
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Tales of Two Pakistanis in Towering Dubai
By William J. Furney In Dubai this week, I encountered two men from Pakistan, one named Muhammad and the other Mohammad, both of them upper-end taxi drivers in an otherwise
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If Cattle Can Walk in the Streets of India, Can I Run in Them?
By William J. Furney This Easter Sunday morning on my sweltering hour-plus run along a long stretch of beach by the frenzied Goan town of Candolim, I received several waves
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In Berlin, in Search of Bacon
By William J. Furney At the National Art Gallery in Berlin, no one knew anything about Francis Bacon. Not the frazzled women on the ticket desk, nor the attendant they
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The Great French Mutiny: Public Revulsion at the Radical ‘Gilets Jaunes’
By Michel Guilmault As I walked through my French town of Chambery one Saturday afternoon in late January to take part in a demonstration for an action on climate change,
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Out of This World in California
Letter from America By William J. Furney Someone was smoking in a toilet on the upper deck of the world’s largest passenger plane as it rocketed its way at close
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Turkey, the European-Asian Problem Child That Wants to Join the EU Adults
LETTER FROM ISTANBUL Journalists locked up for life, half the country’s judges fired, Wikipedia blocked, social media frequently suspended — and on it goes in President Erdogan’s continuing crackdown after
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