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Category Archives: COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Lynch mob
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 2012 THE KING OF JORDAN UK politicians, expediently foaming at the mouth, have … Continue reading
Posted in Jordan, Justice, Politics, UK
Tagged Council of Europe, deportation, ECHR, eurosceptics, human rights, Socrates
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From Magna Carta to Abu Qatada
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 February 2012 BLACK PROPAGANDA Nothing that spies say about anything should be treated as true … Continue reading
Posted in Jordan, Justice, Politics, Torture, UK, UN
Tagged Abu Qatada, Bethlehem, Habeas Corpus, Magna Carta, Rice-Davies, spies
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L’Être et le Néant
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, 7 February 2012 BEING AND NOTHINGNESS We put thirty spokes together and … Continue reading
Posted in China, France, Literature, Philosophy
Tagged Arthur Waley, Sartre, Tao Te Ching
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DAS VIERTE REICH / THE FOURTH REICH
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. VON JETZT AN EUROPA SPRICHT DEUTSCH 6 February 2012 What Bismarck and Hitler failed to … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged austerity, ECB, EU, fiscal compact, Fourth Reich, growth, IMF
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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
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. WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER – UK PRIME MINISTER 5 February 2012 Tomorrow 6 February … Continue reading
Genius is in the mind, not the milieu
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, 4 February 2012 As we have frequently pointed out, this is essentially a political blog. … Continue reading
Posted in France, Literature
Tagged genius, Proust, St Germain, St Honoré, Tout-Paris
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Megabucks back in fashion
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, 3 February 2012 RICH BETTER THAN POOR AT WEATHERING RECESSION In a … Continue reading
The shoddiest possible goods at the highest possible prices
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. We continue the process – started on 30 January 2012 – of publishing as posts … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Politics, UK, UN, USA
Tagged caveat emptor, free market, Marx, rotten apples, Schumacher, Thatcher
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Referendums “have nothing to do with democracy”, claims EU bureaucrat
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 February 2012 Readers of this blog will be aware of the extent to which … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Ireland, Politics
Tagged bureaucracy, elite, European Union, fiscal compact, referendum
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What would Gandhi have said?
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 January 2012 For the next few days, starting with today’s post, we are going to … Continue reading
Posted in Ireland, Politics, Saudi Arabia, Spain, UN, USA
Tagged accountability, democracy, dyarchy, Gandhi, media, partitocracy, voting
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