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Yacht Plot

“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 ...

Slobs and Slatterns

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 ...

Guards in front of Greek Parliament, Athens

The Oldest Trick in the Book

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, ...

Demagogue Days

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 ...

Alexis Tsipras

As the World Turns

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 ...

Alexis Tsipras

The Despots of Democracy

"€œLast 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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