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Author: Patrick Brigham

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Boris and The Goldfish Bowl

June 14, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

If the World was just a goldfish bowl, Am I looking out or looking in? Are the things I see,

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Death in the afternoon

June 1, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

The mindless piffle which is being peddled by Brexit campaigners in order to influence voters in the forthcoming EU referendum,

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Billy Bunter and the Brexit

May 23, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

Watching the Brexit circus from a safe distance in Greece, I can’t help feeling that I have seen it all

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Tato – The man and the myth

May 20, 2016 Patrick Brigham

In September 1997, I concluded an interview with the last surviving East European communist dictator, ex – President Todor Zhivkov

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Patrick Brigham: Stop apologising

May 13, 2016May 13, 2016 Patrick Brigham

It seems that the stiff upper lip of yore has recently been replaced by a trembling, somewhat flabby chin. All

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Nationalism vs Brexit

April 29, 2016June 27, 2016 Patrick Brigham Brexit

I can’t vote in the forthcoming referendum, to determine Great Britain’s future in Europe, and so I reserve the right

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Communism and self-esteem

April 23, 2016 Patrick Brigham

Perceived from the sitting rooms of suburban England or even from a press office in Canary Wharf, the ex-communist countries

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Looking back again on Bulgaria

April 19, 2016April 19, 2016 Patrick Brigham

President Zhelyu Zhelev was an enigma to me. I had watched him on TV in Bulgaria during the early nineties,

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Looking even further back at Bulgaria

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Patrick Brigham

My book, Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, is a humorous account of a British diplomat and his fall from grace,

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