Sunday, November 30, 2014

Is Denmark actually worth getting to???

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I have been viewing, for the first time, the first part of the 2011 Scandinavian television series   The Bridge   – which follows a Danish...

Getting to Denmark

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Readers know that, for the past 24 years, I’ve been involved in efforts to strengthen the effectiveness of various state institutions in s...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Honouring the past

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I wonder if it is possible for Europeans (let alone Brits) to begin to put their head around how countries such as Bulgaria, Poland and Ro...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Time to get off the fence!

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Just over 2 months ago, the British political class was panicked into promising further powers to the Scots – and an apparently independen...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Portraits of cities in despair

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Last week I acquired some new toys – access to wi-fi here in Sofia and the software to download films……For someone who has been able these...
Monday, November 24, 2014

EU credit

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This blog admits to sharing the general cynicism about the political process. All the more important therefore to recognise when positive ...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Psycho-analysing a nation

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The Scots have a lot to be proud of – gaining, throughout the centuries, a high reputation for intellectual, commercial and engineering en...

Things Look Up in Romania; and time to challenge managerialism

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Drive down to Sofia at the weekend – escaping the last-minute frenzy of the Presidential Election which, against all odds (not least the b...