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On those elections in Romania and Poland: a constructive criticism of media coverage and a list of inconvenient facts

The itch to write a blog post about this has been growing over the past couple of months but I thought it sensible to wait until the final results were in before expressing a view. Romania had presidential elections in … Continue reading

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No Land’s Man or How Not to Do an Election

The 2014 presidential elections were a pyrrhic victory for Western values in post-Communist Romania. Note: a Romanian language version of this article was published by Gazeta de Romania, a London-based newspaper for Romanian expats. Read it here. Thousands of Romanians … Continue reading

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The orphans of Romania who are building new lives underground

A story I wrote and that ran in Huck Magazine, a subculture bi-monthly. I knew about the children of the tunnels, but was just one of the passers-by. Huck readers and I now look at them through the eyes of … Continue reading

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