Reading Time: 3 minutes I warned you some time ago that French fishermen wouldn’t let the Brits get off lightly with what they like doing best – being Brits. As the sun sets on the cold water separating the rest of the world from the beginning of the world, nasty little Frenchies are stocking up on inflammable car tyres […]
Economics
Our Biggest Weakness Is To Think We Are Invincible
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weakness, is thinking of oneself as invincible. – Roberto Saviano Exactly one month ago, I started cancelling appointments at my dental practice, following advice from the Dutch dental association to only treat acute emergencies, and avoid patients who have been tested positive for the coronavirus or who present symptoms, like the plague. We are […]
Coronavirus – Ethics And Rationality In Decision-Making
Reading Time: 5 minutes Implementation of restrictions in various European countries has made me realise to what extent we all took things for granted. Gone are the days where we could eat out, go to the cinema, or visit a museum, without thinking twice about it. But the coronavirus outbreak has also cast a shadow over my dental practice. […]
No Brain, And No Will – The Morality Of A Coronavirus
Reading Time: 3 minutes A few weeks into the coronavirus outbreak, and I’m affected. No, I haven’t caught the damn thing – luckily – but I’ll have to face the prospect, sooner or later, of running out of facemasks for my dental practice. Thanks to panic buying – even colleagues have been stocking up, it seems – my dental […]
City Will Have To Be United For Once
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let us leave the murky politics and dubious finances out of this, and concentrate on what really matters – you, the Manchester City supporter. It is you who pays on a weekly basis, to watch and support players who earn more in a week that you will earn in a lifetime. We can take it […]
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 […]
El Mismo Sol: Ordinary Lives In Peru & The Quipu Project
Reading Time: 3 minutes You cannot expect me to be writing all year round can you? It’s time for a break. In the meantime, here’s the first of three updates concerning posts that I wrote ages ago. The two photographs will take you to the land of the Inca’s – Peru. I In 2017, a second international arrest […]
How An Airline Makes It Crystal Clear That I’m A Loser!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Have you noticed how when you board the bigger inter-continental aircrafts, you always have to go through the business class before you take out your reading glasses to evaluate the smallness of your economy seat that you cannot find in the first place? I have my own theory on this, a theory that is mine […]
Make Someone Happy – Take Buzby Huawei!
Reading Time: 5 minutes Little did I know that I was carrying a time bomb in my back pocket. It’s a Huawei P9, a smart little phone (forgive the pun!) whose makers have the potential to cause a lot of us a lot of trouble. Gone are the days when we had to phone the local butcher to make […]
SOCIÉTÉ: Air France-KLM: Y-a-t-il Un Pilote Hollandais Dans L’Avion?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Le dernier numéro de Charlie Hebdo analyse les risques et méfaits de la montée en puissance de politiques identitaires. Le conflit Air France-KLM démontre que la France applique elle-aussi une politique identitaire quand bon lui semble. L’identité française est caractérisée par une arrogance bien gauloise. C’est un trait que vous aimez ou que […]