since 2005: blogging about law & politics
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Braying Donkeys and Hyenas
It is with the weapon of information that the hyenas and donkeys of this world will be finally relegated to the dust heap of irrelevance where they belong.
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Fuck You Dolphins
We’ve been so happy spotting dolphins all over the island. Clips of the cetaceans zipping contentedly over and under waves have been shared again and again and have also made the news – to the point of getting an archbishop’s blessing. Some experts (we still have some somewhere) told us that this was because there…
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The Lies that Bind Us
Alex Agius Saliba (Tander) Labour MEP and member of the S&D group is a liar. More specifically Alex Tander Saliba is lying about what happened in the European Parliament on Thursday 17th when the parliament voted on a resolution entitled “EU coordinated action to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences”. The controversy drummed up…
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The Foreign Legion
There’s no two ways about this. Tackling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic requires a particularly well-honed toolset that is fully integrated with the global realities of today’s world. The by-now standard reaction in any nation wanting to brace itself and mitigate the impact of the virus is the dreaded lockdown. The nature of the…
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δεκαπέντε χρόνια
15 years of “blogging so you don’t have to”. I had “borrowed” that slogan off another contemporary blogger: Ze Frank – who went on to do bigger things with the net (just in 2005, he was featured in Time Magazine’s “50 Coolest Websites.”). Contemporary. I guess it’s a thing now that we are talking of…
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Seize the moment
This article first appeared on The Shift News on 10.12.2019. Sunday afternoon turned out to be quite surreal. As the sun began to set on The Eternal City, I stood at the top of the Spanish steps looking down on a huge crowd of people gathered to follow the Pope’s Immacolata procession. At that precise moment, some…
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