The Balkan Blog: Foreign muck – how can you eat it?
There was a ‘Round Our Ken’ comedy sketch on radio, many years ago, with Kenneth Williams and Betty Marsden. Ken
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Perspectives
weekly Editorial, blogs, opinion from TSG team and readers, Bill Drysdale on ‘My Bulgaria’; Analysis – from team, VOA, NENN; full texts of significant statements, speeches and media statements by Government and non-government organisations.
Opinion: Apple, taxes, and just punishment
Margrethe Vestager reminds us of the purpose of the European Union. Only she – as European Commissioner for Competition –
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The Balkan Blog: Be an Ambler Gambler
In my last three murder mystery novels, certain critics have noted a similarity between my writing style and that of
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The Balkan Blog: Will Britons ever be slaves?
When Britain first, at Heaven’s command Arose from out the azure main; This was the charter of the land, And
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The Balkan Blog: No man is an island
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the
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Opinion: Erdogan, Putin and the touchy Turkish Stream
The revival of the Turkish Stream pipeline project is expected to be the concrete outcome of the meeting between Russian
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Twenty years on, Michael Kapoustin and Life Choice
“Letters to My Son” is an autobiographical account of Michael Kapoustin’s life in Bulgaria. In it, he describes his time
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Europe seen from the outside – the British view
A political counter-revolution against the European Union is underway. Brexit is likely to be seen in hindsight as just the
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The unspeakable in pursuit of the unelectable?
Carefully mincing up Oscar Wilde’s reference to the British landed gentry with the tragicomic hero from from Victor Hugo’s tale
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