Category Archives: Politics

Random Thoughts (24)

Posted on 2019-03-08 by

Good news: the days are getting longer. Unless you live in the Southern hemisphere, then you are doomed to darkness. And unless you live on the equator, in which case you are missing out on something fabulous. My sister asked … Continue reading →

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Brexit Poetry

Posted on 2019-01-30 by

Everybody knows the line “no man is an island”, but nobody knows that when John Donne wrote Devotions upon Emergent Occasions in 1624, he actually warned of Brexit. No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece … Continue reading →

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What does Canada think about Brexit?

Posted on 2019-01-16 by

Well, the Union Jack is already flying at half-mast here. Or two-thirds mast at best. Canadian businesses are quite worried, given that the UK is Canada’s third largest export market and many Canadian companies use the UK as a base … Continue reading →

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Visiting the UK is as cheap as never before

Posted on 2018-11-27 by

Sometimes, particularly when I put on my lawyer hat, I am inclined to think that maybe, just maybe, that whole Brexit thing wasn’t properly thought through from the outset. But big words like “sovereignty” won over practical concerns, and thus … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics, Immigration Law, Law, Politics, Statistics, Travel, UK | Tagged , , , , | 28 Comments

“Fear” by Bob Woodward

Posted on 2018-11-03 by

I am generally not a big fan of reading books on contemporary subjects, because books get better with a few years of hindsight. But for Bob Woodward’s book about the Trump presidency, Fear, I made an exception. Of all the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Elections, Military, Politics, US election 2016, USA | Tagged | 4 Comments

How Social Media saved Yemen

Posted on 2018-10-02 by

Two countries walk into a bar, because there was an offer for any couple whose names start with the same letter. Says Yugoslavia: “I was so unlucky that my wars already took place in the early 1990s. A few years … Continue reading →

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The Smoking Snakes

Posted on 2018-05-29 by

Just a few weeks ago, on 8 and 9 May, Eurocentric Europeans celebrated the end of World War II, although in Asia, that show didn’t get cancelled until a few months later. The surviving US-American, British, French, Belgian, New Zealand, … Continue reading →

Posted in Brazil, History, Italy, Military, Politics, World War II | Tagged | 18 Comments