Tuesday, June 5, 2012

what is Europe for?

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The USE – United States of Europe – is back. For the eurozone, at least. Such "political union", surrendering fundamental powers t...
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Monday, June 4, 2012

Scotland as fortress against neo-liberalism?

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Neal Ascherson is one of Scotland's few intellectual journalists and visited Greenock last year during the by-election there whose re...
Sunday, June 3, 2012

About small nations

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Readers may have been surprised that the previous post on my Scottish visit did not mention the prospect of independence for that country – ...
Saturday, June 2, 2012

A visit to Scotland

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Just returned from my first visit to Scotland for 7 years. Scotland is a small country but in my 11 days I saw four very different aspects...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Looking Back

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I will be on the road for the rest of the month and have only intermittent access to the internet. So please use this break as an opportunit...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Don't believe a word you read!

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An important article in Transitions Online about t he politicisation of the Romanian media  by Marius Dragomir  - A week after the old gove...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

The Long Descent

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I’ve been quiet because I’ve been reading two books which, in different ways, expose the fragility of the world around us; and the theori...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

In Praise of Fault Lines

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I used to boast that the border of Transylvania ran through my back garden since Arges county to the south belongs to Wallachia and Braso...