“Invert your ensign and pretend to be Serbs.” Such is the advice currently offered by Greek port officials to Russian yachts en route to Turkey. The Aegean now plays host to an Olympian game of musical chairs. No one wants the music to stop while a “problem boat” is hovering in their harbor. I know, because I’m aboard one right now. “This is what happens when island policy is settled by avaricious political science graduates who don’t understand the difference between an asset and a liability.” Having depleted the Mediterranean’s superyacht stocks, the E.U. has broadened ...
Among the measures demanded of Greece by its creditors in return for yet another pretense that its debt is actually performing and therefore does not have to be written off, I noticed that for Sunday ...
If the government of a country was being threatened by a larger neighboring nation with invasion, and held a referendum whether to fight or give in, and its people voted to fight, but then the ...
Back in the good old days of 2,500 years ago, the Greeks blamed the gods for their self-induced disasters. In modern times the Brits were to blame and then the Americans. Now it's ...
Over the past few years I don"t know how many hours I"ve wasted reading articles in newspapers about the Greek debt crisis. It isn"t as if I could have affected it in ...
"Last night hope for real change brought the smiles back to Greek faces after five long years": that was a fairly representative statement in the British left-wing press ...
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