since 2005: blogging about law & politics
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Journalism on John Oliver
We’re soon back from the summer break. Meanwhile it’s good to follow what this guy had to say. Always. Facebook Comments Box
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Wir schaffen das!
Angela Merkel seems to still be on the side of deep European values that are the heritage of this continent’s history. Many were expecting her to have a change of heart on her refugee policy following the latest attacks in Bavaria that could be linked in some way or another to the influx of…
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Lessons in Fear (after Munich)
It’s a new thing now. Not Pokemon I mean, but this habit to drop “and Munich?” in conversation without as much as a semblance of intent to actually engage about the matter beyond signalling a mutual acknowledgement of the existence of yet another horrible event marking the simultaneous deaths of multiple human beings. “And Munich?”…
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No Peace for Nice
With the end of EURO 2016, Nice and its inhabitants must have thought that they had closed their account with violence. The football tournament had been the scene of some violent moments when “supporters” hailing from different nations wreaked havoc on many of the host towns in France. Nice was one of them. When the…
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Morning-after: Muscat does a Farage
Malta cannot stop a company from importing a morning-after contraceptive pill that has EU approval, Joseph Muscat said this evening. Speaking at one of the meetings in the Gvern li Jisma series, the Prime Minister said he was not in a position to make moral statements, but to speak to the experts. In this case, the expert…
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Be Deutsch, Fcuk Farsons
Jan Böhmermann hit the international news by offending Turkey’s Erdogan. The Turkish leader had requested that Angela Merkel prosecute Böhmermann under an outdated German law for having dared make fun of him in public. Merkel acquiesced causing widespread indignation among the anti-establishment. Writing on Twitter addressing the Federal Minister of the Chancellery, Böhmermann stated “I would like to live…
servis legis summus ut liberi esse possimus