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Tag Archives: European Union
FAQ: Antigone1984 and Brexit
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. 11 January 2019 As the Brexit (Britain’s Exit from the European Union) train heads at warp … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, Daniel Hannan, European Union, Hayek, Jeremy Corbyn, Philip Hammond, Steve Bannon, Theresa May, Tony Blair, UK Labour Party, UK Tory Party
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Brexit sabotaged
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 December 2018 Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus Horace, Ars Poetica, line 139 … Continue reading
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Tagged Brexit, European Union, Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Grand Old Duke of York, Horace, Theresa May, United Kingdom
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Oklahoma!
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. 19 March 2018 NO, NO, OKLAHOMA! לֹא תִּרְצָח The last time Oklahoma hogged the global limelight – … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Egypt, Europe, Germany, Globalisation, Hong Kong, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Justice, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Torture, UK, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Also Sprach Zarathrustra, Amnesty International, Beheading, Choctaw, Clayton Lockett, Council of Europe, Crucifixion, death penality, European Union, Exodus, Fred Zinnemann, Friedrich Nietzsche, gas chambers, Gordon MacRae, Hitler, Holocaust, Jesus Christ, King James version, Mary Fallin, Moses, Mount Sinai, Nazis, nitrogen gas, okla humma, Oklahoma, Old Testament, Oliver Cromwell, Red Indians, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Shirley Jones, Texas, Thou shalt not kill, Tulsa, Twin Towers, US Eighth Amendment, Virginia, World War II
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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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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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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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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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Gary Cooper and the Sheriff of Athens
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 2015 UNITED STATES OF EUROPE Let’s hear it for Alan Greenspan, chairman of the … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics, USA
Tagged Alan Greenspan, Alexis Tsipras, Ayn Rand, ECB, European Commission, European Union, eurozone, Gary Cooper, IMF, Nathaniel Branden, troika, United States of Europe, Yanis Varoufakis
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