Arts
Euthanasia Machine
It all started innocently enough with my dad. Namely, with a botched Chinese take away for his 79th anniversary. He got so badly over it he had to go to hospital and had to stay [more…]
Articles by Guardian Council
Authoritarianism
The Year 2018
With the year almost over and the Great British Brexit Betrayal almost done and dusted – apart from that little rebellion in the Tory party still waiting to be brushed away like a ghastly Ghetto [more…]
European Union
The Meltdown of German Politics
German politics seem to be – much like anywhere in the world – in a state of flux at the moment. Every new poll shows a further decline of the “Grand Coalition’s” governing majority. When [more…]
America
The Winter with Daisy
There’s a mysterious place hidden in the depth of the Krautland desert, a not very well-known town called Humbug. The Elders reckon it must have existed for many centuries before the first imperial conquistadors arrived, [more…]
History
What is the AfD and why is it so successful?
I guess that’s a question to which many people would like an answer. The first bit is quite easy, so let’s start with that. AfD stands for Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany). This is [more…]
20th Century
Meet the Anglo-Argentines
There are today about 100,000 people living in Argentina claiming English ancestry. In a nation of 42 million, their figure pales to insignificance. Even if one – wrongly – assumed all Anglo-Argentines were concentrated in [more…]
19th Century
Meet the Anglo-Argentines
By the late 1920s, and after six decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth at around seven to eight per cent per year, Argentine per-capita GDP had reached 80% of US levels. It had surpassed per-capita [more…]
19th Century
Meet the Anglo-Argentines
Argentina, that vast expanse of lost opportunities, is not what commonly springs to mind as a very anglophile country. Luckily, the dislike is mutual, since that botched attempt of La Reconquista de las Malvinas (or [more…]
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