A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Thursday, 31 July 2025

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The number of heinous acts by CIA/FBI is massive. But the two worst scandals involving manipulations of US elections was 2016 (Russiagate ho...
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Wednesday, 30 July 2025

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"Washington has reportedly decided to replace Zelensky with Zaluzhny, and the media diligently do their part with the preparations....
Sunday, 27 July 2025

Patrick Cockburn is the person I trust to explain Middle Eastern news

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People on the left like him (he is the son of the Communist Claud Cockburn and pretty left-wing) are usually best on world politics because ...
Friday, 25 July 2025

I knew this, but many blithely say Britain has always been an immigrant country, because this is what they are constantly told

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"There has been more immigration into Britain every single year since 1997 than there was IN THE WHOLE PERIOD from the Anglo-Saxons in ...
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Thursday, 24 July 2025

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"We are going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing it off with Iran." An ...

Glenn Diesen makes a very good point

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'It has been several months since Assad was removed from power by our proxy. Where is the chemical weapons stockpile? The political-medi...

It sounds like the European Union and the US State Department want a Colour Revolution in Ukraine

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The one in Georgia having failed, Pascal Lottaz and many others would add.  I don't know enough and mistrust the information about Geor...

Yasser Arafat did not turn down Barak's offer of a 2 state solution to the Palestinian question

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I am ashamed to say I misremembered Arafat failing to grasp Ehud Barak's generous offer of a two state solution in Palestine.  He did no...

Change and decay in all around I see in England

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My university, Cambridge, in its press release (dread words) calls its new (retired left-wing politician) Chancellor Lord Chris Smith, as if...
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Wednesday, 23 July 2025

The three most important things on the Arab Israeli conflict that I saw in the last 12 months

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1. This article by an anonymous British-born Jew who identifies with Israel and may be an Israeli is an interesting series of arguments in ...
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Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Two thirds of Romanians think Ceausescu was a good leader

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Two thirds of Romanians think Ceausescu was a good leader according to a poll this week . 56% of Russians thought Stalin a good leader in 20...

How can we suppress the Neo-cons? I have no idea.

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From today's Daily Telegraph : The files show that in December 2002, Sir Christopher Meyer, then ambassador to Washington, wrote to the ...
Monday, 21 July 2025

Two graphs I stumbled across today by chance on X

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  Restore Britain is a party led by Rupert Lowe, who was elected last year as a Reform UK MP but left the party.

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Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz: "I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucidydes, for Newton and Euclid, and I find m...
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"Passive, submissive imitation does exist, but hatred of conformity and extreme individualism are no less imitative. Today they constit...
Thursday, 10 July 2025

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“In this world, you can search for everything, except Love and Death. They find you when the time comes.” Sergei Yesenin, who committed suic...
Monday, 7 July 2025

7 July 2005 and the transformation of England

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Twenty years ago on 7 July 2005 bombs in London killed 52 people and injured more than 770 on three Underground trains and a bus. British me...
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Sunday, 6 July 2025

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"Objectivity went out the window in Yugoslavia and that's very much with us today. So much of what, if you look back at Yugoslavia,...
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Saturday, 5 July 2025

Austrian-American photographer Inge Morath took this picture in Lipscani in 1958

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  Arthur Miller divorced Marilyn Monroe to marry Inge Morath.

The failure of the EU and the end of civilisation

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Great Britain, France and Germany helped broker the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. Recent events show what a good deal it was, but the EU and ...
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