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8 januari 2020 In this book Lionel Shriver tells the story how the Mandible family deals with the decay of the USA and the dollar, and the loss of the family fortune. As such she describes how the family deals with “the notion of a lost everything, a permanent, irreversible decline – it’s alien to […]

1 januari 2020 Dear reader, Hereby i wish you all the best for 2020. You might notice that I’m updating this website with a lower frequency and maybe you have the impression that my insights are not as sharp as they used to be. Do not worry about this. I have started writing my next […]

17 december 2019 Something I try to understand already for a while is why so many immigrants want to reach the United Kingdom, even at the risk of their lives. Based on what I find in newspapers, I come to the conclusion that the immigrants are not interested in the sunny climate, the delicious food, […]

14 december 2019 Now that Brexit will have been done, it is clear that the unity of the United Kingdom is under threat. That unity is not evident; it requires an explanation why it exists in the form that it does. I dare to believe, and indeed this is speculative, that the United Kingdom lasted […]

14 december 2019 Ursula von der leyen, the new President of the European Commission, presented the “Green Deal” to the European Parliament. The intention is to make “Europe” carbon/climate-neutral by 2050. On 12-13 December the Green Deal was discussed at the level of the European Commission which reached a “unanimous” decision (with an exception for […]

15 november 2019 On 13 november 2019 Donald Tusk speeched in Bruges and gave his view on the European Union. At that occasion he criticized the objection of the French President Macron to the start of negociations with some Balkan states. Tusk commented : ” There wil be no sovereign Europe without stable Balkans integrated […]

10 november 2019 From a statement by Folks Bernadotte, Chief UN mediator for Palestine, published on 18 September 1948. Bernadotte was killed by a Zionist terrorist organization on 17 September 1948. “It is … undeniable that no settlement can be just and complete if recognition is not accorded to the right of the Arab refugee […]

10 november 2019 A lot of pundits often defend the statement that a political entity “Europe” is an impossibility because there is no common language in Europe and therefore no common public opinion. While I have defended this point of view in some other place, it is time to make an observation which to a […]

24 september 2019 Page XVI-XVII “One factor in particular is the peculiar nature of the contemporary international system, one that despite good intentions arguably promotes political decay. If one examines historical cases of state formation and state building in the regions of the world that have strong states (primarily Europe and East Asia), the uncomfortable […]