Thursday, January 30, 2020

Fear and loathing in Harghita County

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Some news stories are depressing in the extreme (and seemingly there are an increasing number of these).  But once in a while one comes alo...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

A citizen of nowhere checks out

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I've reached the conclusion that trying to fight for and advocate what is best for the UK now has to take second place to advocating f...
Friday, October 21, 2016

Small town Romania

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I never write here any more, I guess I've run out of things to say, but from time to time I guess events still have the power to rouse ...
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Sunday, December 06, 2015

Standing Up

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Sometimes I ask myself what I would have done if I had been German in the 1930s. I am imagining that most liberally minded Europeans have ...
Thursday, December 03, 2015

A "terrorist sympathiser" writes

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397 British MPs are so desperate to be seen to be doing something that they have decided to see how many innocent people they can kill in ...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

Whither democracy?

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Romania has a new technocratic government. With politicians either corrupt or assumed to be, there is a logic to that, and the idea of havi...
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Monday, August 10, 2015

"Human Rights Fundamentalism": Orban makes it clear where he stands

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I was away recently, and while I was away, Hungarian prime minister came to Tusnad (near where we now live) to make a speech at the annual...
Thursday, March 05, 2015

Walls of Disappointment

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Lumme. I haven't posted here since the day I made it clear that Victor Ponta would win the presidential election. What a lot of water h...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Why Romania is screwed

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We are now firmly in the endgame of the presidential election, with Victor Ponta facing Klaus Iohannis. Regular readers of this bog will ha...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

Romania's Presidential Elections (2014 edition)

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While the number of people in Romania continues to drop like a stone, the number of people who want to be the President of those who are le...