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Jumping off the fence at Fortress Wapping
The Sun’s twelve year love affair with Labour started and ended with mobile phone calls to Peter Mandelson. I vividly remember the first call, I was standing next to him at the time. We were in the lobby of the Atrium, a grim restaurant in Westminster, when a News International big cheese rang to say that the following day’s paper was backing Blair ( Read more... ) -
Email scrap on Expat.ru
I have avoidedthe expat scene since I moved to Moscow, with one exception, I belong to a mailing list where foreigners in Russia ask questions and share advice. The service is entitled Expat.ru and it's actully rather handy.
On Friday it also turned into a place for a good fight - read below:
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Message 1
Dear Fellow Listers...
After 6 years we have ( Read more... ) -
Помогите!
Один английский глянцевый журнал, читаемый сравнительно высокооплачиваемыми туристами возраста от 30 до 50, попросил написать список 25 мест, которые стоит посетить в Москве ( Read more... ) -
We have band - live in Paris and next stop Moscow
The most talked about band in Britain (they just won the Q Emerging Bands Contest - top prize a slot on a
mnain stage at Glastonbury) are in Russia this week.
There are a few surprises in store: a guest appearance of the band who will DJ at a decent club on Wednesday and then on Thursay the band will play a track which features Russian poetry.
Come ( Read more... ) -
I suspect an oldie - but goodie
SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
You give one to your neighbour.
COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you some milk.
FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk..
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State ( Read more... ) -
Bollocking bankers
The House of Commons yesterday welcomed the bosses from RBS and HBOS - two of the banks which the British government has taken significant stakes in.
The MPs on the Treasury Select Committee got their chance to grill the CEOs and Chairs of these businesses. I have only had the chance to read the news reports and watch the film of the interviews, ( Read more... ) -
A different side of Mosow?
By chance I have done an article for today's London Evening Standard magazine on the Moscow which the tour guides will never highlight. It is meant to give a flavour of what tourists can discover in Russia's capital if they step off the beaten track.
The fact that it is being published in the week that ( Read more... ) -
Obama = really very classy
I was for some time an Obama sceptic, but I have to say, his new site, and this post in particular says a great deal about his approach. He is the first 21st Century politician.
