European notes
I love the airports. I know that many if not most people hate them, finding them tiresome and often chaotic, a nuisance you have to […]
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Warsaw, Lest We Forget
During the night of the 20th of November, 700 Home Army soldiers from the district of Zoliborz (named Jolie Bord or Beautiful Embankment by the […]
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A giant, Star of David-shaped hole in the heart
There are two tragedies of the Polish-Jewish relations. The first one is that through the centuries of coexistence with each other we did not make […]
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How I didn’t get busted for doing a nude photo shoot in Egypt
The short – and boring – answer is that I didn’t try to do one. Not that you would think this is a particularly controversial […]
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Luxor Massacre – 20 Years On
Almost exactly twenty years ago, in the morning hours of 17 November 1997, six Islamist terrorists slaughtered two guards and 56 foreign tourists at the […]
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The German Notebook
This is my second time in Germany. Actually, make that my third time. When I was two or three years old, my parents took me […]
Continue reading »WHAT IN THE GOD’S NAME? – The title of this post is pretty mild, as I’m trying not to swear (too much) at The Daily […]
Continue reading »SHOW US YOUR HAIR! – The ACT Greens want to criminalise not only “revenge porn” (which is fair enough) but also sharing “intimate” photos without […]
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Palm Sunday
The double bombing of Coptic churches in Egypt yesterday is another reminder, as if we need it, that there is a war going on, of […]
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Antwerp – walking in a terrorist’s pre-steps
39-year old Mohammed R., a French national of North African origin, allegedly tried to imitate the Westminster attack in Antwerp, but was stopped without any […]
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Looking the dead in the eye
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Death ends, not just in a physiological sense, but also metaphysically. The dead are unreal; they remain only as […]
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I’ve got 21 beaches but the Gold Coast ain’t one
Another international ranking, another slap in the face of Queensland (“beautiful one day, perfect the next”). My local pride does not allow me to take […]
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The Great Wall of Fannys, or “it’s modern art; you wouldn’t understand it, you Philistine”
*Warning: language (not my own (and some mine)) and disturbing content* Apologies for the blog silence over the past four days; I was enjoying a […]
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The Daily Outrage
Today’s Daily Outrage courtesy of Sheikh Saleh Bin Fawzan Al-Fazwan, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, and what everyone on the Internet has already called […]
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Walking the Bloody Nose Ridge
They were hoping to take the island in four days. After all, there was not much to take, just an expanse of bleached coral, some […]
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Picture perfect
Travel is great. Everyone should do it. Thanks to the historically stunning rise of cheap transport more people than ever do it more often than […]
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Every news and commentary outlet needs a good slogan. All the news that’s fit to print. We report, you decide. Speaking for the Workers’ Party […]
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