Avanti La Musica – The Italian Flop

There’s good news, and bad news, coming from Rome. The good news is that Italian coalition governments don’t last that long. Since WWII, there have been 19 general elections, but more than 60 different governments. The chances are, then, that the latest coalition will not last very long. Now for the bad news. The latest […]

Dikes, Bikes, And Perks – Holland’s Underwater Haven

Netherlands

photograph © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) [perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]So happy under water[/perfectpullquote] The latest OECD report, focussing on the work-leisure balance – so important in stopping each one of us from giving up on life – puts the Dutch at the top of the class. This does […]

Rotten Apples

[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]It’s the update – or lack of – that sealed its fate[/perfectpullquote] A few weeks ago, my iPad suffered a premature death. For my beloved tablet, it wasn’t a crash that transformed him to ash, it’s the update that sealed his fate. Or rather, it was the lack […]