Saturday, December 5, 2015

Balkan perceptions

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I’ve been quiet this past week simply because I’ve been wrapped up in what I hoped would be the final stages of completing the new book ...
Monday, November 30, 2015

A Hard Day's Night

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Bulgaria is famous for its red wines – I remember first coming across them in the Glasgow Oddbins in the 1970s and, lo indeed, 40 out of t...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Identity Politics and the Human Rights "Industry"

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The unease about “multiculturalism” that has been festering in many Europeans for the past two decades seems to have exploded into full op...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Passion and Dedication

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I sometimes think that Newspeak has taken over. For years, for example, the journals have been full of talk of “innovation” and yet we ...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Is our Moral Outrage Relative and Selective??

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It’s been more than a week since the horrific massacre in Paris – whose death toll could have been at least tripled but for the effective ...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Death in Paris

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The death by gunshot of one innocent is murder – of 130 a massacre - regardless of where it takes place…it could have been any of us in ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

All in a day's "work"

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One of my favourite bloggers - Duncan Green – makes the important point that –    regular blogging builds up a handy, time-saving archi...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Despairing of the World - how artists cope

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I wrote in April about my experience of having my bust sculpted by one of Bulgaria’s best-known sculptors - Spartak Dermendjiev (al...