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After countless months of campaigning, buckets of blather mixed liberally with vitriol, one awful murder and countless lies, the people have voted. And they have voted to leave the EU. Not, as one BBC commentator said this morning, ‘Overwhelmingly.’ It … Continue reading
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The sun is shining in Jerez. Everyone tells me how much it has cooled down, but twenty-eight degrees celsius is hot enough for me. It was ten degrees higher and the heat is, apparently, set to return by the end … Continue reading
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Writing the recent political comment post prompted me to think about novels which depict the democratic process. Where are the great ‘election’ novels? My literary knowledge must be incomplete, I thought, I can think of only relatively modern works. ‘Primary Colors‘ … Continue reading
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Modern democracy is at work in Europe, with major, potentially disastrous, consequences. In Britain the deadline for voting registration in the EU referendum was last midnight, when the registration site crashed under the weight of last-minute registrations. There are already … Continue reading
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Just as the EU Referendum saw a country divided, so too does the result of Spain’s General Election 2016. But in Spain the divisions are pretty much the same as they were back in December 2015, when the country last … Continue reading →
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