Tuesday, November 9, 2010

A Lament on the impotence of democratic politics

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Craig Murray’s latest post looks at the latest 2 examples of the collusion between government and commercial interests ( Vodaphone and BA...
Monday, November 8, 2010

The need for heroes?

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Sarah in Romania has another great blog today on the Paunescu obsequies phenomenon which is well worth reading for its analysis of the poss...
Sunday, November 7, 2010

Identity

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I’ve always had great difficulty answering the simple question “What do you do?” “Student” was easy but, after graduation, I had a quick s...
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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Death of Ceaucescu's court poet and senator; alternatives

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Dawn brings another superb, blue cloudless sky. The next section is from Sara in Romania's blog Romanian poet Adrian Paunescu died this ...
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Friday, November 5, 2010

Graphic writing

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Yesterday was very spectacular here – the light from the cloudless blue sky had a special edge to it - caused partly by the low arc the su...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010

absurd and autumnal Romania

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The last week has seen glorous weather and I was sad to be missing the crispness of the mountain views – but the weather has held and I’ve ...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

A useful table

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Sadly, the blog does not seem to offer the facility of showing tables. I found this table a very useful one when I first saw it some years ...
Monday, November 1, 2010

Sala Radio

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I’m glad to report on a great Syrian shop (with everything you could expect from such a shop – not least the glorious smell as you enter) i...