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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran

  • Invigorating Invective

    Here’s two examples of well-crafted bile from the week worth noting in the blog:The British MP George Galloway may be a shady ego-manic, but he can hurl a great, almost baroque, insult. From the

  • The Long Summer

    Just finished Brian Fagan�s The Long Summer, whose subtitle �How Climate Changed Civilization� sums up the book�s premise. Specifically, Fagan describes the coincidence of the rise of human ci

  • Skewered minister

    Lenihan should not quit, says Minister states the Irish Times in relation to the moronic “kebabs” remark made by junior minister Conor Lenihan.Er, yes he should. Lenihan’s boss, Mini

  • Television, the drug of the nation

    On the seemingly interminable (10+ hours) flight back to Ireland from Arizona, I managed to finish Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s slim, amusing, and mercifully short novel, Television (translated by

  • Zapatistas challenge Inter Milan to a game

    Years ago, sitting in a chaotic restaurant in Ho Chi Minh city (how's that for showing off!), our Vietnamese hosts on learning that I was Irish beamed and gave me an international greeting - "Roy Kean

  • Vacation movie roundup

    Ah, holidays–a time of year to wander around a video store 5,000 miles away from home and realize that Blockbuster, although significantly cheaper than your local video store (whose late fees ki

  • Defining and refining conflicts of interest. What 11 years in politics has done to Silvio Berlusconi's business empire.

    Last year was the 10th anniversary of the founding of Silvio Berlusconi's political party Forza Italia. The party was founded at a time when the established political order appeared to be cr

  • Notes from the Interior

    This is the first post of May. The gap in posts is not just down to being on vacation (on vacation from what? some might say) but can also be explained by various dull Internet issues, flaring back pa

  • Viva la Mama! Berlusconi Bis – a government shaken, not stirred.

    April was a turbid time in Italy, with two focal points of leadership coming to an end. This column, when not taking a shifty break (as may have been noted by its absence for almost a fortnight), was
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