Sunday, March 24, 2013

The beauty of traffic

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Ha Long Bay. You know the one I've been in Vietnam for the last two weeks, my third visit in the last three years.  It's a gre...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

Don't tell me...

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I've been away for two weeks, and am currently writing from an airport on my way home.  Please tell me this flag bollocks has blown ove...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Notes from the new front line

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The flag debate drags on and on and ... Political capital is made by both sides in perpetuating it. Easy to whip Romanians into a fury ov...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Emigration (brief reprise)

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There's a weird new thing connected to emigration.    Let's call it voluntary superficial auto-Magyarisation.  It works like this: ...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Who are the Székely? (2)

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Some time ago (by which it seems I mean 7 years.  7 bloody years!) I wrote a post entitled "Who are the Szekely?" , which was an...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Imaginary horses

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A bit of road where horses are actually banned Yesterday I read a number of articles in the British press stating, without doubt, that ...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

Flogging a dead horse

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Spot the difference Britain is in crisis mode with shock and disgust being expounded in equal measure, over the fact that a large amou...
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Friday, February 08, 2013

Nothing to see

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Romania this week has been rocked by scandalous and shocking internet & media based inter-ethnic conflict.  Or so we are told. Regi...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Hard ideas in simple language

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Explaining complex ideas in the thousand most common words in English. It's not easy. But here you can try http://splasho.com/upgoer5...
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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Emigration - the flip side of the coin

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It's been a week of bile and attempted humour about immigration.  Specifically Romanians and Bulgarians coming to Britain  They are app...
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