Category Archives: Politics

Those were the days!

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 2013 Be realistic: demand the impossible. Slogan of moderate student demonstrators in the Golden … Continue reading

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Machiavelli

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.  5 May 2013 Chi fonda in sul populo, fonda in sul fango. He who builds on … Continue reading

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Big tent

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.  18 April 2013 Those who are not against us are with us. János Kádár (1956-1988). General … Continue reading

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Get off your backsides!

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.  12 April 2013 Don’t confuse analysis with action. Michael F00t (1913-2010). Leader of the British Labour … Continue reading

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Ich bin ein Berliner

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.  1 April 2013 Is nothing sacred? No, nothing is sacred. Or at least that is what … Continue reading

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Urbi et Orbi

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.  Romae, die ultimo mensis Martii,  Anno Domini 2013  URBI ET ORBI  Hominibus bonae voluntatis pax sit … Continue reading

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A way out for Cyprus: the courts

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.  30 March 2013 The news today is that up to 60 % of savings deposits of … Continue reading

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Caught red-handed with smoking gun

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.  26 March 2013 UK LABOUR PARTY LEADER CONDONES SLAVE LABOUR For a long time now the … Continue reading

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A Cypriot shipwreck

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 March 2013   Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blast ne’er … Continue reading

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Power-laundering

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.  22 March 2013 This is a post in an occasional series highlighting canny tactics for ambitious … Continue reading

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