Monday, March 31, 2014

The Status Quo is not on offer

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The Anthony Frost English Bookshop in Bucharest has quite a few books on the Scottish Independence debate waiting for me – which I hope ...
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Deepening the Scottish debate

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There’s been a lot of discussion in the past decade about the extent to which such things as the social media and blogs are changing the m...
Sunday, March 30, 2014

Hanging Together???

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Two things you wouldn’t pick up from media coverage of the Scottish referendum are that – ·          60% of UK public spending in Scotla...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

Drifting Apart

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There’s less than 6 months to go to the referendum on Scottish independence. The wind is in the sails of those who want to cut loose from ...

Georgi Markov - a forgotten writer

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What do Europeans think when they think of Bulgaria? Until last year’s fuss about immigrant workers, the typical response would probably...
Friday, March 28, 2014

Putting words in their place

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Questions of English reverberate through our daily lives.  When we use a language, we may be making a social connection, answering a ques...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Some recommendations for those visiting Sofia

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This has become the time of the year when my mind turns to the Carpathian house. Most of the last 7 winters have been spent here in Sofi...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

The power of images

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Black and white phography is a wonderful if neglected art-form - particularly from the early-mid part of the 20th century when brutalisa...