Boris and The Goldfish Bowl
If the World was just a goldfish bowl, Am I looking out or looking in? Are the things I see,
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Author: Patrick Brigham
Death in the afternoon
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
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
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
It seems that the stiff upper lip of yore has recently been replaced by a trembling, somewhat flabby chin.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
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
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
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
My book, Herodotus: The Gnome of Sofia, is a humorous account of a British diplomat and his fall from grace,
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