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IMMIGRATION
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 July 2016 THE IMMIGRANT Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Italy, Literature, Politics, Portugal, Turkey, UK
Tagged A Jacobite's Epitaph, Aeneas, Aeneid, Ayn Rand, Brexit, David Cameron, democracy, European Coal and Steel Community, European Parliament, European Union, Herder, immigration, Jean Monnet, Juno, nationalism, Nigel Farage, Plato, populism, racism, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Troy, UK referendum 2016, UKIP, Virgil, xenophobia
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Why the UK does not need the EU crutch
4 July 2016 “[Je refuse] la création d’une zone de libre-échange de l’Europe occidentale, en attendant la zone atlantique, laquelle ôterait à notre continent sa propre personnalité.” Le général de Gaulle, 1967. “I refuse to accept the creation of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Politics, Portugal, UK, Uncategorized
Tagged bisphenols, Blanketeers, Brexit, Chartists, Combination Acts, European Economic Community, European Union, Factory Acts, General de Gaulle, herbicide roundup, Luddites, neonicotinoids, Peterloo, pollination, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TUC, UK Labour Party, universal suffrage
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CONTRA UNIONEM EUROPAEAM
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. 23 April 2016, St George’s Day CONTRA EUROPAM A PHILIPPIC IN TWO PARTS AGAINST … Continue reading
Posted in Belgium, Economics, Europe, France, Germany, Globalisation, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Literature, Luxembourg, Military, Philosophy, Politics, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Alexis Tsipras, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Big Bang, Brexit, Dostoevsky, F.R. Leavis, Henry V, J.G. Herder, Jeremy Corbyn, King Offa, Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, Rena Doulou, St George, Syriza, TISA, TTIP, UK Labour Party, William Shakespeare
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Caput anni
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 January 2015 The good news is that Antigone1984 is to resume blogging as from today. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military, Poland, Politics, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Crimea, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Kuwait, mass surveillance, Nato, Qatar, spy agencies, typewriters
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North v. South
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 December 2013 The stark divide between the rich north of Europe and the poor south … Continue reading
No left left
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Posted in Europe, Literature, Politics, Portugal, Sweden, UK, USA
Tagged José Saramago, Nobel Prize for Literature, non-existent left, Sell-out by the left
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Pointless protest
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Posted in Europe, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged Eurocrats, European Union, eurozone, Lehman Brothers, partitocracy
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A damp squib
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. 21 October 2012 The little dog barked, but the caravan continued on regardless. … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, Politics, Portugal, Spain, UK
Tagged Bob Crow, Ed Miliband, Mao Zedong, Mark Serwotka, Occupy, Oxbridge Boat Race, Trenton Oldfield, TUC
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Crooked timber
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 2012 We reprint below the substance of an article by commentator Simon Jenkins in … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Tagged Holy Roman Empire, Naopleon, Third Reich
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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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