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Category Archives: Europe
Big Brother is watching you
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. Paris, 21 October 2013 The big news here today is the revelation in the newspaper Le … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France, UK, USA
Tagged Antigone, Big Brother, Edward Snowden, George Orwell, Lord Palmerston, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Sophocles
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Et tu, Brute!
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 October 2013 Fangs ain’t what they used to be, as reviewers joke about the declining … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Italy, Politics
Tagged Angelino Alfano, Aristotle, Beppe Grillo, Enrico Letta, Julius Caesar, Silvio Berlusconi, William Shakespeare
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The market rules, OK?
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 August 2013 Here we go again! Having systematically pandered to employer interests while turning a … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Poland, UK
Tagged capitalism, Chris Bryant, European Union, free movement of labour, market economy, UK election 2015, UK Labour Party
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Slumming it for Jesus
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. 10 July 2013 Let’s hear it for Jorge Mario Bergoglio! Who he? Well, that is in … Continue reading
Posted in Argentina, Europe, Italy, Religion
Tagged Catholic Church, immigration, Lampedusa, Pope Francis, St Francis of Assisi, Venerable Bede
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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
The market rules, okay?
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. Paris, 27 March 2013 LE GOUVERNEMENT IMPUISSANT FACE À LA MONTÉE DU CHOMAGE [Government helpless in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, USA
Tagged Apple, eurozone, Gap, invisible hand, Le Figaro, market economy, Motown
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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
Posted in Cyprus, Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics
Tagged Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Nicos Anastasiades, Othello, triad
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Spectacular bank heist in Cyprus
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 March 2013 A gang of ruthless bank robbers has been caught red-handed in the tiny … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Greece, Russia, USA
Tagged Cyprus, European Union, IMF, Nicos Anastasiades, stability levy
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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. Special editorial note We have gone to town in the following article on the Italian elections. … Continue reading