A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Tuesday, 26 November 2024

Popcorn

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Knowing that war would break out in Ukraine President Iohannis put together a coalition of the centre right and left. The Romanian electorat...
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That was a surprise

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Good lord! I had not even heard of Călin Georgescu until my very interesting and nice young waiter on Friday appealed eloquently to us to vo...
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Saturday, 23 November 2024

The news

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My taxi driver blamed the Ukrainian war on Nato expansion (a majority of cab drivers do), blamed America for its intervention in Syria and A...
Wednesday, 20 November 2024

Quotations

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Democrat supporting US journalist Cenk Uygur: 'Sarah Palin was very nervous before her VP debate with Biden in 2008 and then she realize...
Friday, 15 November 2024

Absurdly the international deep state apparatchiks say Tulsi Gabbard might give classified information to the Kremlin

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2022    "Dear Presidents Putin, Zelensky, and Biden. It's time to put geopolitics aside and embrace the spirit of aloha, respect an...
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Saturday, 9 November 2024

American revolution

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The gallant British and the brave American Tories lost the war of 1776-83. The only American conservatives  were then deported. We should ha...
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Friday, 8 November 2024

Quotations

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Ed Miliband, after losing the 2015 election (which meant David Cameron had to fulfil his promise to call a Brexit referendum), said: "W...
Thursday, 7 November 2024

Is Trump America's De Gaulle?

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Tom Gallagher once asked me this and Richard Vinen, a fine historian, explores the idea in Unherd . I'd prefer to say he is the antithes...
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A famous victory

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They said I'm going to start wars – I'm going to end wars.  Donald Trump in his victory address at Mar-a-Lago Senior Hamas official ...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024

Trump wins decisively

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Trump has won Pennsylvania and Fox News has declared him the winner of the US presidential election. CNN says he needs 4 more electoral coll...
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Tuesday, 5 November 2024

America in decay

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Biden-Harris are responsible for a disastrous humiliation in Afghanistan, the war in Ukraine and what looks exactly like genocide in Gaza.  ...
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Friday, 1 November 2024

Quotations

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“You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, h...

Israel in trouble

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“The  REAL enemy that we have is not Iran…is not Hezbollah….is not Hamas... it's from within,  the messianic, crazy, extreme groups of I...
Thursday, 31 October 2024

Hallowe'en

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Hallowe'en does not have origins in paganism, Satanism, Samhain, Druidic festivals, or the occult. It's purely Catholic, just like C...
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Monday, 28 October 2024

Acknowledgements, Lakshmi Kapoor

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"Mr. Marx does not believe in God, but he believes deeply in himself. His heart is filled not with love but with rancour. He has very l...
Friday, 25 October 2024

Quotations

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“It is the perversity of the Tory party to want to get us out of the European Union when, of course, we’re much more than ever unlikely to b...
Thursday, 24 October 2024

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard 1978 - what a great man he was

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'The split in today's world is perceptible even to a hasty glance. Any of our contemporaries readily identifies two world powers, ea...
Tuesday, 22 October 2024

News

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"Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that Israel "will encourage the voluntary transfer of all Gazan citizen...
Sunday, 20 October 2024

Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein opposed the creation of a Jewish state

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After he had been asked by Dr. Chaim Koffler of the Jewish organisation Keren Hajessod to sign a petition condemning the Arab riots of 1929,...
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Friday, 18 October 2024

Quotations

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"History knows no resting places and no plateaus. All societies of which history informs us went through periods of decline; most of th...
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