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235. Libya and the Arab Spring

It was always tense at the Libyan border. It took a couple of hours to get through the melée at the best of times. All humanity was there. Migrant workers, goat herds, farmers, businessmen. And secret...

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236. The price of oil: 6 – Libya and the Last Oil Shock

‘Paradoxically, the very worst outcome [for oil prices] might not be a sudden shock, but a milder recession. If this were to create some temporary spare oil production capacity by depressing demand, …...

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237. Travels in Asia Minor – Cappadocia, Turkey

The golden autumn grasslands looked benign enough in sunshine from our balloon flight at dawn today, but 600 kilometres into Asia Minor, and 1,600 years ago, life was hard here. So hard, in fact, that...

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238. Guildford is Olympic – torch relay 2012

The Olympic torch is coming to Guildford in 2012 as its last stop before London. The grass running track in Stoke Park was laid out again recently. It’s from here in Guildford that the Olympic torch...

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239. A goddess amidst the gorse — South Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

The hotel may be still asleep, but by six o’clock a Scottish May morning is already in full swing. Outside the sky is clear and blue, the lawns still dew-swept and the rhododendron in full flower. At...

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240. Rory McIlroy – US Open Champion and UNICEF Ambassador

Golf is a sport which can make you humble. Yet the new US Open champion had already learnt humility the hard way. In April, Rory McIlroy led a major championship for the third time in a row, starting...

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241. Cuba 4: Cienfuegos – a pearl endures

Daybreak, 250 km east of Havana. The sun is rising languidly above Cienfuegos as I take in the view of architectural wonders from the hotel roof. Far below me in the city’s famed central square, Plaza...

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242. The secret of Sandwich – British Open 2011

A major tournament – contested on the best links I’ve played, and won by the gutsiest golfer I know. There could scarcely have been a better result to this year’s Open Championship. Amongst the...

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243. Across two continents: Istanbul, Turkey

As I stand below the Blue Mosque in the early morning, the Call to Prayer is deafening, drowning out all the other senses and sending forth the unmistakeable message — Istanbul is an Islamic city. But...

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244. A day in November – Occupy London 2011

(… with apologies to Sebastian Faulks). One day in November 2011. Two views of the City of London. 1) St Paul’s Cathedral, from the top floor of a major European bank; 2) The Occupy London protest....

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