The Original Salvini
Recent tragic reports of boatloads of African immigrants crossing from Libya to Lampedusa, a 12 square mile island off of the coast of Sicily, have transfixed local, regional and international...
View ArticleThe Chaotic Kingdom
Sometimes I wish the United Kingdom would finish its prolonged post-imperial suicide. Divide the kingdoms and make Cornwall great again. To adapt a Polish saying, for the past two and a half years the...
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How a Visa for Asylum Seekers Could Grant Safe Passage to Europe
The European Parliament is considering a proposal to create a European humanitarian visa, a mechanism that will allow eligible asylum seekers safe passage to Europe. The move is intended to provide a...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s Anti-Semitism
The scheduling of a meeting of the Visegrád 4 (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia) in Jerusalem at the end of January was a seen as a moment worthy of remark even at the time. As Israeli...
View ArticleBritain Versus its Government
The UK campaign for a new referendum has gone from a faint call in the summer of 2016 to massive demonstrations outside Parliament. But can it really succeed? Marching through Whitehall, the House of...
View ArticleNo Words Needed
MAGAM’s new album, Another, is a tour-de-force of eccentricity. The companion to the band’s 2017 debut, One, conceptually linked by a play written by a band member who goes by the mysterious name of...
View ArticleThe Reporter
His rifle was pointed at a projection of Berlaymont, the European Commission HQ. “Is that the real thing?” I asked him. “I’m not telling, mate,” the reporter said, laughing. “You sort it out.”...
View ArticleThe View From the Newsroom
“We changed the picture,” the Russian editor said over the messaging client from Brussels. “Jean is here, and he agrees. We substituted it for something more appropriate.” That something more...
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Just Say Europe
The posters were racist. Practically all of them. Living in Milano’s Piazzale Loreto, on the block next to the former Esso station where Benito Mussolini’s body had been strung up by the partisans,...
View ArticleNo Option But Remain
It was about time. After months of internal party squabbles, Jeremy Corbyn has decided to take a much more pro-Remain position in a fresh referendum call. His own shadow cabinet, Tom Watson, Emily...
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