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The Ultimate Pariah State

by | 9 Aug 2012

I mean piraña. It is about time that the world came to terms with the ultimate pariah state, instead of playing games with countries where they can’t even build relationships, let alone atomic weapons. I’m talking about a country that quite literally holds...

Driving in Slovenia

by | 29 Jul 2012

… and there’s no SLO about it… While living in Slovenia a while back, I came to understand more about the national psyche by observing (if possible from a safe distance) the locals in their favourite mode of ego transport. A few things have changed...

22:18 – Esslingen, Germany

by | 27 Jul 2012

The World’s Gone Crazy But I Can’t Get Off Amazingly, here in the middle of Germany, no one appears to be interested in the opening ceremony of the Monopolympics. Bloody marvelous. I bet there’s a lot of Brits who spend much of their lives bemoaning...

Driving to Despair

by | 23 Jul 2012

All Roads Lead to… Driving from Brussels to Ljubljana, one gets a quite different perspective of our European partners, one that shows them in a more natural light. First, it’s through eastern Belgium and into Luxembourg, a route dictated by the fact that fuel...

Barber Shop Harmony

by | 10 Jul 2012

A couple of days ago I had a haircut. As I grew through most of my hair during my thirties, you may wonder why that sentence is so significant to me. (Apart from the fact that if you have it cut to 2mm, when it grows another millimetre, that’s a 50% increase...

How to Employ Women

by | 9 Jul 2012

Good management skills are timeless This was written by one L.H. Sanders and appeared under the title “Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees” in the July 1943 edition of Mass Transportation magazine. There’s no longer any...