Sunday, December 28, 2014

The elephant in the nationalist room

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There were two dominant themes in this year’s blogposts which I have just reviewed - the need to dismantle the political class; and the “i...

Variations on a theme

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This is the time of the year when some of us like to “take stock” – so I have been looking at the 180-odd blogposts of 2014, trying to ide...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Attentiveness

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Good resolutions seem to have gone out of fashion – and end-of-year reflections seem to have been surrendered, vicariously, to journalists...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Revelations

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My blog occasionally refers to the welcome relief my nomadic life of the past 24 years has given from the “noise” of television and newsp...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Musing Away

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Today I celebrate the 1000th post of the blog I started 5 years ago.  It’s been quite a journey -  1,300 pages of text and pictures co...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Expectations

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As a politician from my late 20s, I quickly learned how soon public expectations turn to dust – although my first speeches “on the stump”...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

Nudging the politicians out??

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The World Bank used to be a name to conjure with. Its keynote annual “World Development” reports blazed an ideological trail in the 90s –...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

Bucharest's contrasts

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The  Sala Radio is one of Bucharest’s best-kept secrets – with great acoustics and the recitals broadcast on the radio. Its Radio Cham...