Thursday, January 31, 2013

Migration and mobility of labour

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A feisty reply from a young Bulgarian this week to the recent comments about Bulgaria from the Leader of the British Independence Party . ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Neglected old masters

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There are two Bulgarian painters I consider hugely neglected and underrated – Marin Ustagenov (1872-1937) and Nicolai Boiadjiev (1904-1963)...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

The best writing on the global crisis

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The intuition of the older generations beats hands-down the arrogance of the post-war generations. They shunned debt – and knew that the ...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Behind the blog

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So many blogs, books and papers about the state of the world/one’s country! So little time! How to identify what’s worth reading? That’s ...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Apocalypse Soon???

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It’s Davos time again - a (generally missed) opportunity for “movers and shakers” to come together and discuss the state of the world – e...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Back in Sofia

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The grey sky ended at the Danube - as it tends to do on these runs down to Sofia. And the temperature was high for January – all of 12 de...
Sunday, January 20, 2013

Why should Scots support the Union?

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An update on the situation in a small and faraway country which has been growing disenchanted with its larger neighbour in the last 30 ye...
Monday, January 14, 2013

different municipal styles

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Over the past 6 years, I’ve basically spent most of the winters in Sofia and the summers (apart from 2008) in the Carpathian mountain hou...