A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Friday, 4 July 2025

Was Lucan right?

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Gerald Harper was very famous in England long ago for playing a suave, upper class villain in a successful television series.  He has just ...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Quotations

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"Love is what makes growing up bearable." Eve Pollard "Kraus' first law: In life you don't get what you "deserve...
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Monday, 30 June 2025

Douglas Macgregor: The War Machine Is Out of Control — And It's Coming for YOU

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Another interview with Douglas Macgregor. He thinks since the end of the Second World War things have been set up for the benefit of Americ...

R.I.P John Charmley who exploded the Churchillian version of history

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Low Churchill is said to have said "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.'' It has been and he did. Though actua...
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Douglas Macgregor: Middle East Crisis Could Spark Global War, U.S. Dollar Losing Reserve Status

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Iran is not close to getting the bomb and if they did the Middle East would be safer. Has the North Korean bomb made the world dangerous? Wh...
Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Quotations

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“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”  Arthur Schopenhauer "I have always felt a certain horror of political econo...
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Nearly 377,000 Gazans died since October 2023?

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The official overall Arab death toll in Gaza now stands at 56, 077 but it does not include people missing trapped under the rubble. A report...
Thursday, 19 June 2025

Quotations

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"What is the news ? " asked the bird. Yudhisthira [whose name meant: firm in all battles] replied calmly:"In this cauldron fi...
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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

How right Obama was about Iran and Ukraine

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The only man who comes out well from the Israeli attack on Iran is Obama. How wise his agreement with Iran now looks. He was also right no...
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Monday, 2 June 2025

Quotations

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“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” Henry David Thoreau [What's the price of Facebook and X?] "No du...
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Saturday, 31 May 2025

After the storm yesterday by Dan Mihai Balanescu

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Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Anthony Burgess deliciously described Canada as the colony that stayed at home to look after mother

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I hate it that the King referred to 'the government' not 'my government'. I'm sorry that Mr. Carney, when he chose to vi...
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Monday, 19 May 2025

Quotations

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"I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked ...

Tom Gallagher's reading of the Romanian election

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Tom Gallagher, the leading historian of modern Romania, published this an hour ago on Twitter/X. In Romania twenty years of presidential ele...
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Saturday, 17 May 2025

Romanian presidential election

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By 7 p.m. local time 610,000 Romanians abroad had voted, almost double the number at the same time during the first round. 100,000 (sic!) ha...
Thursday, 15 May 2025

Quotations

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"At what point will Israel say their revenge is complete?"  Ha'aretz journalist Nir Hasson yesterday, while tweeting a censore...
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