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Category Archives: UK
THE PEASANTS HAVE REVOLTED
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. 24 June 2016 [The text below has been revised several times since it was initially posted … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Politics, Scotland, UK
Tagged Boris Johnson, Brexit, Donald Tusk, European Union, Manuel Valls, Nigel Farage, Robert Burns, Scottish Nationalists, St George, UK referendum
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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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Labour radical “comes out” as EU patsy
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Posted in Architecture, Europe, Greece, Politics, UK
Tagged Amnesty, European Union, Felipe González, Gary Cooper, Helllas, Jeremy Corbyn, Rena Doulou, Syriza
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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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Stygian gloom
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 January 2015 Large swathes of Britain are reverting to the Dark Ages – literally. Penny-pinching … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, UK
Tagged Dark Ages, Eric Pickles, gas lamps, Hilary Benn, Labour Party, LED, Scrooge, skinflint, Tory Party, Victorian Age
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