Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Going back in time.

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Romania, as you may be aware, has suddenly been transfixed by political shenanigans. As I mentioned a couple of months ago , the previous g...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

It's all gone a bit victor-y

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Another (insert large period of time) has passed since I last wrote here, but hell, you get what you pay for, I imagine. Two weeks ago I ...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Sign of the times

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Over the course of the now 8 years since I've been here (8 years!  Lumme), the state of the economy has been visible from observing the ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

A post!

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In fact like buses, I'm hoping that after there has been none along in months there may even be two in very short order. The second one...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Unprincipled

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Somehow the sight of people selling out their (apparently deeply held) principles is worse than the sight of people who you knew had no prin...
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Thursday, October 21, 2010

To the Manor Osborne

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I know someone who, because of depression, hasn't been able to work for years. Some days he is OK, some days not. There is no way he ca...
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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Politics week - Part 3: Hungary

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So, the UK now has a Tory prime minister and basically a Tory government. (On a side note, I discovered yesterday that I am older than both ...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Who is David Cameron anyway?

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Bit busy today so the Hungary section of politics week has been put on hold. However, the UK now has a prime minister and I thought it would...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Politics week - Part 2: the UK

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It's been a big week in British politics. But I reckon it must look dead weird from an outsider's perspective. Partly because of ou...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Politics week - Part 1: Romania

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It's going to be politics week on Csikszereda Musings (taking over from the last few weeks during which there were clearly a series of ...
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Poster boy

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A bit of a follow-up to last week's rant about Cameron and co. You too, can have fun with modifying the wild-eyed, slapheaded, "lo...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Romania in the grip of violet flame conspiracy

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Just to balance the last post I made, at least in the sense of showing that the British system isn't the only one that is built on a ste...
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The Last Big Lie of Thatcherism

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It's probably apparent where I stand on Thatcherism to anyone who's read much of anything on this blog, so I'll not go into it i...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

More media coverage of 1989

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Obviously I could just list a bunch of articles here, but I've tried to handpick the most interesting ones The BBC: "Eljen Laszlo ...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

The Romanian Elections - FAQs

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Idly flicking through the news today around the net (does one "idly flick through" websites or do I need a new phrase here?) it is...
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Monday, December 07, 2009

Chadescu

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So, last night the election results (as determined by exit polls) went to Geoana, but then I wake up this morning and it seems like Basescu ...
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Saturday, December 05, 2009

Dirty Tricks

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Everyone got an anonymous card in the mail this morning here, with a quote from Basescu (in Hungarian) saying that there would never be auto...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

The political divide

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Interesting map of how the country is divided: Orange counties voted for Basescu (basically Transylvania, Bucharest, the coast), red ones vo...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The morning after...

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As predicted below, the Presidential run off in Romania will be between (incumbent) Traian Basescu and Mircea Geoana of the PSD. So basical...
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