Best of Both Worlds

Perspective from here and over there.

Monday, August 14, 2023

Rabaa Ten Years After

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With human rights groups reminding us that there's been no accountability for the Rabaa massacre, it's also worth noting how this e...
Wednesday, August 02, 2023

It sounds better in the original French

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 Ross Douthat has a nice column attempting an analogy between the Stuart rebellions in Britain and Ireland and the diffuse nature of populi...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Every day is No-Deal Brexit Day

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[This is entirely a recycling of material from 18 months ago , but then again, the traffic situation in Kent is a recycling of material from...
Saturday, June 04, 2022

Ferry Across the Hudson

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New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff interviewing British actor Mark Rylance, this is the final exchange after Rylance spoke about h...
Monday, May 02, 2022

The French politics theory of everything

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Ross Douthat in the Sunday New York Times -- Six years ago, under the pressure of Donald Trump’s insurgency, the G.O.P. split into three fa...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Kevin McCarthy will be fine

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Why has there been no reaction to Kevin McCarthy saying one thing in public and another in private, in this case about whether Trump should ...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The Kinahans hit the big time

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 Here's a link to the latest action by US Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) regarding the "transnational criminal or...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Sometimes a trade deal is just a trade deal

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[Originally posted in 2014; reposting in light of Russian invasion of Ukraine] Barack Obama , 10 November 2011 -- Russia’s World Trade O...

Peace through trade

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[originally posted September 2016; reviving given the Russian invasion of Ukraine] That was once the Obama Administration theory about how...
Sunday, January 02, 2022

Nationwide

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The Continental USA has a new winter storm according to the Weather Channel . It's named Frida. And here we go again . This "storm...
Saturday, January 01, 2022

Connections

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From the annual (if delayed) Maureen Dowd New York Times column where she hands the keyboard to her conservative brother Kevin -- That day ...
Monday, December 13, 2021

The UEFA Champions League draw

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 The easy response to the fiasco will be a lot of "You had one job" dunks on Twitter. UEFA had outsourced the technology for the d...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

System Barra

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One of multiple news sources : PAMPLONA, Spain, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Severe flooding in Spain's Navarre region submerged cars and houses ...

Storm Atticus

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At some point, after Kentucky gets through all its funerals, there will need to be an assessment of public awareness of the dangerous weathe...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

Storm Finbarr

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There is no reason to name North Atlantic low pressure systems. None . There are several of them active at the minute . One of them -- now c...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

There's no word in French for Bobo

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 Financial Times on Eric Zemmour -- His extraordinary rise since he emerged as a putative candidate in the summer is down to a Trumpian gen...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Not Strange Brew

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  With all the Eric Clapton antics, it would be too easy to riff on Strange Brew as a song about vaccines, so here instead is the Strange Br...
Friday, November 12, 2021

Agency

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 Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, used his Martyrs' Day speech to make clear that it's not respectful to Yemenis t...
Friday, November 05, 2021

How Heathers foretold the 2021 US election results

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 JD: People will look at the ashes of Westerburg and say; "now there's a school that self-destructed, not because society didn...
Saturday, October 09, 2021

Pandemics with representation

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 From Financial Times article on the relaxation of UK quarantine restrictions -- Tom Jenkins, chief executive of the European Tourism Assoc...
Saturday, September 25, 2021

Quote of the Day

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 Janan Ganesh in the Financial Times -- Social media’s mutation from Speaker’s Corner to Gin Lane roughly tracks the smartphone’s conquest ...
Sunday, August 29, 2021

Defunct strategist

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 From the excellent Washington Post recounting of the collapse of the Afghanistan government as seen from Kabul and Washington DC, amid the...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

We'll fight them in the apps

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  Wall Street Journal , 9 August (when things were just getting dire in Afghanistan) -- [President Ashraf] Ghani has been issuing wildly opt...
Saturday, August 07, 2021

Curragh Mutiny

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RTE :  Today's All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final between Limerick and Waterford has been delayed until 5.30pm due to ...
Saturday, July 31, 2021

We are so close to the singularity

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Financial Times on protests in Paris:  Staunch Communists marched with supporters of the far-right Rassemblement National party and some fr...

The NYT paragraphs that nobody read

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This was in the article before the Friday Morning Freak out article:  "Still, when the virus tries to snake down into the lungs, immune...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

In a very real sense, aren't we all Credit Suisse?

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From the already legendary law firm report into the Archegos fiasco -- Both Co-Heads [of Prime Services] were double-hatted with numerous re...
Thursday, July 22, 2021

Quote of the Day

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"Imagine Ricky Gervais’s fictional firm in The Office trading up from the Slough Trading Estate to a one-day-a-week meeting room off Pi...

Ulster says what now?

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Ian Paisley MP in the latest House of Commons discussion of Brexit as applied in Northern Ireland:  I must say for the record that I do not...
Friday, July 16, 2021

German floods

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 Important context here from Karsten Brandt (use Google translate). Climate of course the major factor but so also an apparent breakdown in ...
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