A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Monday, 28 December 2020

It was hard to come to terms with the fact that I was bringing yet another white man into the world

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Emily Ratajkowski, an American model, tells Vogue about her fear of bringing a white male into the world . "I’m scared of having a so...
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Sunday, 27 December 2020

Brexit quotations

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  'Brexit is a great thing from a European perspective. As well as protecting Europe from the vapid trash of Anglo-American culture, it ...
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Tuesday, 22 December 2020

Disaster

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'Thick fog in Channel: Continent Cut Off' was something regularly announced on the BBC before the 1939-45 war. I'm sorry to hear...
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Saturday, 12 December 2020

Africa is not a safe haven from Covid

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Lots of people I speak to are talking about going to Africa for a few weeks to avoid Covid and the winter.  It is, unfortunately, not true t...
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Thursday, 10 December 2020

De Gaulle was right: Britain joining the EEC has been a calamity for everyone

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Reluctantly, after the emotional roller-coaster of 2016 -20, I have to think again about Brexit, which now reaches its long delayed dénoueme...
Thursday, 3 December 2020

Death notice

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The ineffably grand Valery Giscard D'Estang, former President of France, has died of complications linked to Covid-19. He was 94. He sai...
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Wednesday, 2 December 2020

2020 news items, including the Washington Post headline: ‘Washington’s aristocracy hopes a Biden presidency will make schmoozing great again.’

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Manchester University undergraduates say using the colour black as an adjective, in expressions like black market or black day, is based on ...
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Thursday, 26 November 2020

Lady in Waiting

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The review , in my least favourite magazine in a very crowded field, the London Review of Books , of a new memoir of Princess Margaret, cont...

A spectre is haunting Europe

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A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. So begins the Communist Manifesto and Marx was right - Communism was a spectre, in ...
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Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Knut M. Wittkowski said this on LinkedIn yesterday

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Never again? — When I grew up in Germany, I understood that "never again" should people die because others were "just followi...
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Sunday, 15 November 2020

Three quotations from today's Sunday Times

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“I don’t think he [Donald Trump] has a master plan here,” said Charlie Sykes, a conservative radio host. “You see this with the stumbling an...
Thursday, 12 November 2020

Important clause in small print in the armistice in Nagorno Karabakh

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I considered visiting the Azeri exclave of Nakhchivan last year when I went to Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Azeris are Turks or at any ra...
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Stefan Voloseniuc and disappearing Romania

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Romania-Insider has the story of Stefan Voloseniuc, an impressive man who came to England as a navvy speaking no English and now has a compa...
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The French vocation

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Ed Husai n, in an article in today's Spectator entitled Macron is preparing for intellectual battle against Islamism: "In Britain,...
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Tuesday, 10 November 2020

The Knut thinks Covid-19 is gone, lockdowns have bred Covid-20A and will breed Covid-21

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I was very hopeful that Covid-19 was fading away fast in August, though certainly not in Romania. Now the word is overjoyed that there might...
Friday, 6 November 2020

Why Trump lost - he did not appeal to white men enough

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My instinct was that Trump could win. The polls, which I came round to believing only on the eve of the election, were utterly wrong. Many, ...
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Thursday, 5 November 2020

No colonial guilt in the 3rd century BC

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'So now, in the first place, I shall recount the ancient ordeals of our ancestors, drawing remembrance thereof from their renown. For th...
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Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Are vegans pro-life?

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The first line of this post on Reddit is: "I got super offended reading through a vegan board saying human life also falls under vegan...
Wednesday, 14 October 2020

The threat to Great Britain and Europe is not Russia, obviously - you know that

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The head of MI5 said today that Russian espionage was the most aggravating problem caused by a state actor, but though Russia provided spell...
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Covid in Belarus

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Data for deaths from all causes suggest that Covid related deaths in Belarus are about three times higher than the 690, out of a population ...
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