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Anyone for Uruguay?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 May 2015 CONTRA SPEM “Tout le malheur des hommes vient de l’espérance.” Assertion by Albert … Continue reading
Posted in China, Europe, Iceland, Politics, Russia, UK, UN, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Confucius, cultivate one's garden, Epicurus of Samos, groundless optimism, Harold Stearns, Left Unity, Malcolm Cowley, Pasok, Podemos, President Coolidge, President Harding, Roger Carpenter of Cambridge University, Syriza, Taoism, the end justifies the means, UK Labour Party, Voltaire, wishful thinking
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The people have spoken, the bastards!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 17 May 2015 “The people have spoken, the bastards!” These are the immortal words of Dick … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Ireland, Politics, UK
Tagged Dick Tuck, disability, Eton College, George Danielson, human rights, Lib Dems, Middle Ages, rocket science, sadistic, Schadenfreude, string theory, Tory Island, William IV
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Refuseniks
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 May 2015 The abstentionist bloc in the British electorate registered a resounding success in the … Continue reading
None of the above
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 May 2015 NONE OF THE ABOVE With the UK parliamentary elections due to take place … Continue reading
Η ελπίδα δέν έρχεται
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Special editorial note: Apologies to readers for a rather long post. This is because it concerns … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Politics, Spain, UK
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Angela Merkel, Christine Lagarde, European Union, eurozone, François Hollande, IMF, Jean-Claude Juncker, Leonidas, Manolis Glezos, Matteo Renzi, Podemos, Simonides, Syriza, Thermopylae, troika, Wolfgang Schäuble, Yanis Varoufakis
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Athens rejects Spartan terms
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Posted in Austria, Economics, Europe, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Politics, Spain, USA
Tagged Areopagus, Athens, democracy, Ephialtes, François Hollande, IMF, Jean-Claude Juncker, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Jyrki Katainen, Luis de Guindos, New Democracy, partitocracy, Pnyx, Potomac, Sparta, Syntagma, Syriza, Wolgang Schäuble
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Un perro andaluz
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 14 February 2015 “Thank God, I’m an atheist.” Luis Buñuel (1900-1993), Spanish film director. Antigone1984: … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, France, Mexico, Religion, Spain
Tagged atheism, gratitude, Le Monde, Luis Buñuel, theology, Un perro andaluz
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Gary Cooper and the Sheriff of Athens
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 February 2015 UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Let’s hear it for Alan Greenspan, chairman of the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics, USA
Tagged Alan Greenspan, Alexis Tsipras, Ayn Rand, ECB, European Commission, European Union, eurozone, Gary Cooper, IMF, Nathaniel Branden, troika, United States of Europe, Yanis Varoufakis
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive!
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Tagged Achaemenids, Aeschylus, Alexis Tsipras, Andreas Papandreou, ANEL, Evangelos Venizelos, Felipe González, George Papandreous, Jean-Claude Juncker, KKE, Lula da Silva, Marathon, Mitterand, New Democracy, Pasok, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Syntagma, Syriza, William Wordsworth
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