Reading Time: < 1 minute Lost girl of Syria, Your heart shines as a diamond, Casting its spell in the desert storm, Shedding its tears over the trodden blades of grass, You asked for nothing and obtained less. Your love shines through a darkened skin, Your soul, entrapped in troubled times, Not knowing whether to escape or stay, Searches desperately […]
ROYAUME-UNI – Démocratie, Ferme Ta Gueule!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Oubliez les paroles réconfortantes de Boris Johnson qui nous rassure en nous promettant que les députés disposeront de suffisamment de temps pour éviter un Brexit sans accord. La prorogation du parlement britannique n’est rien d’autre qu’un affront à la démocratie. En retardant le discours de la reine jusqu’au 14 octobre, le premier ministre britannique ne […]
Boris Johnson: An Agitator Within The Law
Reading Time: 3 minutes Like it or not, Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament is perfectly legal. The Queen might very well have choked on her porridge, she gave the prime minister her blessing and paved the way for Parliament to be muted whilst Brexit is being irrevocably defined. It’s a sad state of affairs for UK democracy, of course, […]
The Queen’s Consent – “One Is Very Amused, One Must Say!”
Reading Time: 2 minutes How I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the royal room when Queen Lily met prime minister BoJo. Well not really, of course. For one, I would have a brain the size of – well – a fly’s brain, I suppose. And two, I would have been smacked by a […]
“Mother Democracy, Shut The F*ck Up”
Reading Time: 3 minutes Forget about Boris Johnson’s comforting words reassuring us that MP’s will have sufficient time to do something about avoiding a no-deal Brexit, the prorogation of parliament is an affront to democracy. In delaying the Queen’s speech until October 14th, Johnson is doing nothing less that bypassing democracy. In shutting up Westminster, he has effectively forced […]
EU Must Resist Boris Johnson And His Tantrum
Reading Time: 3 minutes Negotiation is an art of give-and-take, and UK prime minister Boris Johnson wants to give nothing and take all. Johnson and his so skillfully skewed cabinet that is bent on a no-deal Brexit seem to forget that not so long ago he evaluated the chances of a no-deal Brexit as one in a million. Judging […]
Peru – Living Under Constant Threat Of Being Moved
Reading Time: 5 minutes The earth moves every few days under the feet of unsuspecting Peruvians, a phenomenon that goes unnoticed by those who either do not know of the existence of a major risk of disaster in Peru or choose to ignore it. As a tourist, I am well aware that during my two-week stay I was not […]
True Stories
Reading Time: < 1 minute A little girl on the motorway….A grown-up dentist in the desert. POSTS The Unknown Little Girl On The A10 Motorway Syria: Having a Caesarean Performed by…a Dentist
Caught In The Net
Reading Time: < 1 minute A wonderful thing, the Internet. If you don’t let it catch up with you body and mess up your mind. Is it virtual reality or a real version of virtualness? Splitting the mind from the body you remain yourself only behind the comfort of a computer screen. Once on the other side, all hell breaks […]
“L’Enfant Terrible” Of The European Union
Reading Time: < 1 minute Iconic French president Charles de Gaulle may have been right in describing the UK as being the odd-one-out in the European Union. Was he a visionary? I have always said that it would have been much better for the UK to stay in the EU and reform it from the inside. But maybe that is […]